A third segment focuses on Oliver, now a married father yet unable to leave the past and its passion behind, before Elio and Oliver meet again in the novel's brief coda. He begins a satisfying relationship with Michael, an attorney two decades or so his senior, but Elio's memories of Oliver, whom he loved and lost as a teen, reawaken. Several years later, Elio has moved to Paris. Yet you totally understand me") later that day, once they arrive in Rome, they begin planning new lives together. In dialogue that quickly turns searching, they sense in each other a soul mate ("I've known you for less than an hour on a train. On the train, Samuel strikes up a conversation with a beautiful photographer named Miranda, an American expatriate like him, though she's half his age. The story opens as Samuel, a classics professor who has abandoned hope of love, boards the train from Florence to Rome to visit his pianist son, Elio, the earlier novel's narrator. The elegant sequel to Aciman's celebrated first novel, Call Me by Your Name, revisits his best-known characters some 20 years later.
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