Five years after their adventures in Barcelona in The Spanish Apartment, many of the exuberant flatmates are reunited, including Xavier who is soon thirty and struggles as a writer. He commutes to London for a job co-writing TV with Wendy and ghostwrites an autobiography for a model in Paris.

The endearingly chaotic ex-flatmates of The Spanish Apartment reappear in this stylish, charming follow-up. A sequel that builds on the emotions and time passed in-between, and an uncommonly adult depiction of life’s various stages, taking place between Paris, London, Moscow, and St Petersburg.