“The house by the ocean, where we were happy" is a story about how two people fell in love with each other forever. It would seem that what could be better, isn't that what everyone dreams of? But fate separates them, condemning them to live their whole lives apart, to spend all their time looking back at that tiny moment in the past when they were together.Joshua, the most famous composer, is on the verge of suicide, and only the love of his son keeps him from taking the last step. Madeleine is living out her last days surrounded by her beloved daughter and sisters, stoically enduring an incurable disease. She arrives at the house by the ocean, where she lived in her youth and where she met Joshua, not suspecting that he, attracted by memories, also came to the place where their youth passed. What will a meeting that they have wanted and feared all their lives bring to their lives? Will it help to cure the disease, to comfort a desperate person? And if not, could it be that after taking it out on the parents, fate will be more lenient to the children?Agnes Martin-Lugan is writing a book about love: parents to children, children to parents, about friendly and sisterly love. It shows that human life is a lot of misfortunes and mismatches, but also a lot of tenderness.