“I met Lisa on a train in the summer of 2023. She sat down next to me and introduced herself (which is very uncommon on a public train in Sweden (and probably many places in the world)). I was going to my friends wedding. And when I asked her where she was heading, she simply replied: “I’m going to see the love of my life”. We talked the whole three hour trip and exchanged numbers. I called her six months later, in mid-December. And the second line she said after hello was ”it ended today”.

Mattias Wallenius is a radio producer and journalist based in Stockholm, Sweden. He also created the music for this piece. “He called me his typhoon” was nominated in Tempo Documentary Festival’s Short Dox Radio award in 2024.