A lone willow bends by the silent river, its branches tracing secrets on the water’s surface. An old fisherman rows slowly, his net cast toward the fading sun. He remembers a promise made decades ago beneath these very leaves—a vow carried away by the spring floods. Now, each ripple holds a fragment of that lost time. Children laugh on the distant shore, their voices weaving with the wind, as twilight drapes the world in hues of memory and longing. The willow whispers still, guarding stories ...