About the book: 1992 / A man and a woman set off on a circumnavigation of the world. He has little experience of holiday sailing and has never set foot on a yacht before. They were going to circumnavigate the globe in two years and return to their usual, earthly life, which they had always liked. It was not an escape from reality, just a desire to see the big world. But swimming captured them. Two years stretched into three and a half and the thought of returning to their previous lifestyle became unbearable...