The fifteen episodes of the book portray - in the form of a memoir - the pressures and pleasures of a young Catalan in London during the 1970s. In his most personal book, the author uses irony and compassion to portray the vicissitudes of a young man without means who learns to live, and survive, in an environment and a culture thought of as a friendly refuge - far from the misery, turbulence and agony of Franco's regime and the beginning of the transition. The situations and characters that pass through the pages of this book are the distillation of a sentimental education, but also a delightful recreation of the "English hours" of a Catalan who stows away on a plane to London.