Lay me down

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For Jack Fin, the offer of a job on the Golden Gate Bridge is the chance of a lifetime. He's an iron-worker, and this iconic landmark has haunted his dreams since childhood. But the job comes with a second, unexpected role: the delicate psychological task of talking down the thirty people who attempt to leap from the bridge each year. And with each jumper, the things with which Jack maintains order - steel, structure, silence - are stripped away, and the life he has carefully constructed for himself begins to unravel. For Jack's British girlfriend, Elsa, Golden Gate is a chance to cement their whirlwind romance into something solid. Dropping everything to move with him to San Francisco, Elsa sets about making a home for them, hoping that she is finally leaving the troubled relationships of her early twenties behind her. But the bridge isn't going to let either of forget their pasts. And as three strangers step over the bridge's railing, the impact each of them will have on Jack and Elsa can never be undone.