This is pretty much a very sweet, slightly longer than a short, possibly, Pixar movie-in-comic-form, to me. A man and a woman meet in their later years, seemingly reunited, insinuating a romantic date of some kind. Only the story proceeds through that date, and then goes backwards to the very first moment they met, illustrating the complications this path took. For one, the woman is married and she says she’s been in love with him for 40 years, but it’s their first date.

So, many questions naturally surface. The man, we learn, is a physics professor—though very much in a Pixar way, as he explains his theory of time possibly moving backwards, under certain circumstances. It’s sentimental and romantic, and he uses moths as a device to showcase his point, even though… he’s a physics professor. The book proceeds like this throughout, showing some connective tissue between plot beats revealed already later on.

I found it endearing, but I did think the story would have been even better with a bit more character development, because as is, it takes a certain amount of faith from the reader. Especially when the dialogue is only passable. I love the illustration style and the colour palette though, it’s absolutely gorgeous.