Two moms set up their romantic offspring who have both loved but had their hearts broken. Mia Rivera is a college professor of literature who was inspired in her youth by the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet and him poem "on living". Tony Romano is a piano bar singer who wears a fedora and likes to sing the crooner classics.
"So many of us when it comes to love-the journey from aspiration to fulfillment is a very bumpy road."-Professor Rivera
Tony and Mia meet first while heckling each other in a theater and then run into each other on the street...thanks to a little help from their moms.
"I'm not in a funk."-Mia. "All hermits say that"-bff
Mia moves into Tony's appartement building with her daughter and is in the process of divorcing her good-for-nothing husband. Her daughters first friend in her new home happens to be Tony's niece who he is looking after while his sister is away.
Tony and Mia agree to be friends...and get to know each other...the rest is history!
The dedication at the end is sweet, sentimental and beautiful.
"Ralph Waldo Emerson says shallow men believe in luck, strong men believe in cause and effect."-Mia.
"Stab the body and it heals, but enter the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime."-Mineko Iwasaki
"Deny me bread, air, light, spring, but never your laughter for I will die."-Pablo Neruda
This was sweetly romantic in an old fashioned way that is very sentimental. I highly recommend this to any romantics out there.
