They met when she was six and he was thirty-six. They married when she was twenty-three and he was thirty-one. Because Henry suffers from a rare genetic condition—time displacement syndrome; his disappearances from Claire’s life are unpredictable, and his appearances are both comical and—at the same time—traumatic and tragic.
This incredible story of an incredible love may well have become the most astonishing international bestseller of the new century. The film rights were bought by Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston (star of the TV series “Friends”) even before the book was published itself; Gus Van Sant was originally expected to direct, but in the end it was Robert Schwentke, with Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams in the lead roles.