Growing up in a picturesque city along the Rhine River in Germany, Jonathan (Jace) and Anna have been best friends all their lives. Paul is the perfect stranger, a handsome, successful architect from Paris, who moves into the neighborhood and straight into Anna's affections when they meet, serendipitously, in a riverside park. In this delicately told story, employing multiple, non-linear narratives, The Brightest Never is a vivid, modern tale of youthful passions, enduring friendships, and sudden incomprehensible tragedies. Carefully drawn chararacters across generations navigate the difficult and, at times, harrowing waters of intimacy, loyalty, and desire as they seek to know themselves more deeply and live more authentically, through the bonds of love, the freedom of truth, and the power of imagination.