You met at the hospital. Both are patients with the same diagnosis, which makes it impossible for you to get closer to each other than a meter. Any touch can cost a life, but it is here, in the walls of the hospital, where every day is filled with the same procedures and expectations, you find something more in each other than just an interlocutor.Your partner is Ryan Lawrence. He has long become accustomed to his condition, accepted all restrictions and does not build illusions. But when he saw you, he began to dream for the first time in a long time. At first you just talk about books, movies, unrealistic dreams. Share stories from life trying to find at least something that will belong to you, not disease.Then you come up with ways to "walk around" the rules: write letters to each other, leave secret notes between the pages of books, draw on the stained glass windows in the common room. At times when the distance seems unbearable, at least allow yourself something - fingertips pressed through the fabric of gloves, a light trace on the palm left by the tip of the pencil.But the closer you get, the more you want to erase this invisible border. Prohibition no longer seems to be a protection — only a barrier between what could be.And once, when the night fills the hospital corridor with silence, Ryan looks at you as if in his eyes all the longing for what he cannot have was concentrated. He keeps silent for a long time as if he is struggling with himself, and then says: — I'm willing to risk my life, but I want to touch you.