The Perfect Relationship

EFFIE

So how long have you known William?

JEREMY

Since we were seven.

EFFIE

How old are you now?

JEREMY
You know how they say all the greats
die at 27?

EFFIE
No.

JEREMY

I'm 28.

EFFIE

Sorry about your girlfriend leaving.

JEREMY

I don't know how it came to this. 

She told me I lost myself in her... 

she needed space.

EFFIE

I want to tell you a story. It's about-

WILLIAM

What's going on?

EFFIE

I'm telling him a story about Skagen.

It's in the north of the country

where the two oceans meet.

JEREMY

I've heard of this place.

EFFIE

I went there once with my mother. 

She was sad because her boyfriend left 

and I was sad because I had a fight with my 

best friend. So, she brought me to the end 

of the beach and then she pointed to the 

right where the Baltic Sea is.

JEREMY

I knew that!

WILLIAM

Yeah, from Risk.

EFFIE

So, it's a very beautiful and very blue 

sea. The waves travel west.

WILLIAM

Current.

EFFIE

What?

WILLIAM

Current, not waves. Waves... current 

travels west, not waves.

EFFIE

So the current travels west. Then she 

pointed to the left.

JEREMY

North Sea?

EFFIE

Yeah. Also a very beautiful and blue sea 

but the current travels east. And then 

she pointed to the middle and she said 

that... that is the perfect relationship. 

You can look to the left and you can 

look to the right and both seas are there. 

And they can meet in the middle 

but they never lose themselves in each other. 

They're always themselves no matter what. 

And with that, I boarded a train to Copenhagen.