Jean-Pierre Zanardi, a gallery owner on the Left Bank, is a free spirit. Paulina Homs, a woman living a peaceful family life in Barcelona, comes to Paris for her cousin’s wedding. As if fate had planned it, Jean-Pierre and Paulina fall for each other unexpectedly, in a love affair that will shake up their lives forever.
Someone Like You is the chronicle of the researching and piecing together of the love story between Paulina Homs and Jean-Pierre Zanardi, through documents, memories, sudden discoveries and the testimony of the people who were privy to the couple’s clandestine romance. It is Paulina’s daughter, Gina, many years after her mother’s death, who finds out about the great love that changed Paulina for the rest of her life.
Through the letters Paulina and Jean-Pierre wrote to each other, Gina reconstructs their love story: four intense days kept alive by the strength of memory.Finally, Gina is able put together unrelated events and discover her mother’s secret and the depths of her love.
This project has been funded with support from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Commission.
Xavier Bosch i Sancho, publicly known as Xavier Bosch (Barcelona, July 21, 1967) is a Catalan writer and journalist. He was the creator, together with Antoni Bassas of the humorous program Alguna pregunta més? at Catalunya Ràdio, for which he received an Ondas award. Specializing in sports journalism, he worked at La Vanguardia, TV3, RAC 1 and was director of the newspaper Avui from 2007 to 2008. In 2010 he has been one of the initiators of a new daily newspaper in Catalan language, Diari Ara.
Regarding his career as a novelist, he has written a trilogy starred by journalist Dani Santana, which first book Se sabrà tot received a Sant Jordi Award in 2009. Second and third novels were Homes d'honor (2012) and Eufòria. His last novel Algú com tu (Someone like you) (2015), is winner of the Ramon Llull 2015 award.
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