Juni hasn't been truly in love since her teenage years, with her high school sweetheart Alex. On her thirty-third birthday, she finds a letter, a promise they made when they reluctantly parted ways after graduation. In the letter, they promised to seek each other out when they were thirty-plus and dusty, and if they happened to be single, they would give the relationship another chance. Win or lose, Juni sends a message to Alex. It turns out that Alex is also single, and the summer in Stockholm is filled with dates. At the same time, Juni's job as an interior designer takes off when she gets the chance to pitch a big assignment that could make her dream of opening her own studio come true. The carousel spins faster and faster when she also takes on the assignment of decorating Alex's cousin Leo's large attic, and soon she is faced with situations and decisions she didn't see coming. Could it be that returning to her history could actually be the key to finding her future?

The one that got away is, quite simply, about the greatest of all: Love. About the desire to find a way back to that unspoiled, exuberant and naive love that you might only experience the first time you're truly in love. That relationship that ended abruptly or was just completely wrong geographically or in terms of timing.

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