Random Acts of Heroic Love

With over 200,000 copies sold in the UK, a Richard & Judy pick, rights sold in 19 countries, called riveting and mesmerizing, this is a cinematic debut from a gifted new writer. Based on real family events, Danny Scheinmanns novel paints a dramatic portrait of two epic love stories.

1992: Traveling through South America with his girlfriend, Leo wakes up in a hopsital to find his girlfriend is dead. He blames himself for the tragedy and is sucked into a spiral of despair. But a surprising secret leads Leo to discover something that will change his life forever.

1917: Moritz is a POW fugitve, with seven thousand kilometers of the Russian steppes separating him from his first love, whose memory has kept him alive through carnage and captivity. The war may be over, but he now faces a perilous journey and the insecurity of whether his love is still waiting.