One encounter was supposed to mean nothing.
Milan is a thirty-something IT professional living abroad, drifting through a carefully constructed life of career moves, disposable comforts, and surface-level stability. Critical of the world he helps build - yet unable to step away from it - he mistakes control for satisfaction.
Petra never planned this life. A biology student raised close to nature, she carries a deep concern for the world around her alongside a debt that forces her into choices she never wanted to make.
Told in alternating first-person chapters, On Both Sides of the Mirror follows the same moments through two perspectives - reflected, distorted, and incomplete. As months pass, both lives quietly unravel: relationships fracture, betrayals surface, and escape begins to feel like the only form of survival.
As ambition gives way to disillusionment and survival turns into flight, their paths cross again - across cities, countries, and failed attempts at starting over.
A contemporary romance about desire, identity, and the cost of modern comfort, On Both Sides of the Mirror explores intimacy in a world shaped by consumption, compromise, and the longing for something more sustainable - in love and in life
