There are nights that seem ordinary until a small incident turns them into a turning point. This is the story of a chance encounter on a rural road in Romania, between the towns of Pitești and Curtea de Argeș, which ended up weaving an invisible bond between people whose lives should never have crossed.
A breakdown in the middle of nowhere
It was close to two in the morning on a cold November night. It had rained for hours and the asphalt reflected the moon like a dark mirror. A married couple, the narrator of this story and his wife Ioana, were returning from a family wedding when their old Dacia Logan, with more than two hundred thousand kilometers traveled, stopped definitively at the side of the road. A thin thread of steam came out of the hood and the engine refused to start.
The situation was complicated: neither of the two phones had a signal. Around him there were only empty fields, a group of trees in the distance and the typical silence of rural early mornings. Half an hour after the breakdown, no vehicle had stopped.
The arrival of a stranger
Finally two lighthouses appeared in the distance. A white Toyota Corolla, with a long stripe on the left fender, slowed down and stopped behind the broken-down car. A young man of about twenty-five years old, dressed in jeans and a gray sweatshirt, got out of it, who offered to help with the naturalness of someone who makes a daily gesture.
After checking the engine with a small flashlight, the young man concluded that it was probably a problem with the fuel pump, something impossible to solve on the spot. His solution was simple: he would take them to Curtea de Argeș, where there was a twenty-four-hour workshop
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