Premiere: ‘Hjerte Rimer På’

'Heart Rhymes With' is a psychological and seductive podcast about a young woman's obsessive journey through Paris – in search of answers, love, and the heart that beats in her chest.

When Marie wakes up after a heart transplant, she should feel relieved. Instead, she feels an inexplicable sadness – like an echo of a love she has never had herself. A foreign longing has taken root in her body. Her heart beats – but for whom?

Convinced that she carries another person's feelings, 20-year-old Marie embarks on an intense and sensual hunt through the streets of Paris to find her anonymous donor. What begins as a search for understanding quickly becomes an obsession. She must find the woman whose heart now beats in her chest – and the love that perhaps never died.

'Heart Rhymes With' is a fiction podcast in seven episodes, combining scientific theories and emotional drama in a narrative where the boundaries between body, identity, and soul are blurred. Can a heart hold fragments of memories and love? What if you are taken over by someone else's feelings – without knowing it?

The podcast is created by Jacob Alexander Høgsberg and Sune Lykke Albinus: "'Heart Rhymes With' is fundamentally about how we all walk around giving our hearts to each other – with the risk of them being broken. And when that happens, we must find a way to continue living. After all, you can't just lie down and die," says Sune Lykke Albinus. "It has taken five years to create the podcast. Not as a deliberate therapeutic process, but along the way, I've realized that there is a lesson in every failed relationship. Something you can take with you, learn from – and become wiser about yourself through."

And precisely the personal commitment to the project has been the driving force: "'Aren't we done yet?' I've asked Sune that question many times over the five years. It's normal for people to spend years making a movie or a TV series – but a podcast? It seems so small. But over time, it has grown large. Hopefully for the listeners, but to a great extent for me personally. There arises a very special love when you get to be in a creative boxing ring with your best friend for so long. My heart has acquired some beautiful scars, unforgettable memories with our Marie in Paris – and a deep gratitude for having helped create something that perhaps can make a difference. Now we are finished. And our little heart child must go out and have its own life. It's bittersweet – but in a good way," concludes Jacob Alexander Høgsberg.