A young writer, overwhelmed by his publisher's demands to deliver a new novel, recreates his experiences from two university semesters spent abroad: one in Brighton, UK, and the other in Grenoble, France, to which each of the two parts of the book are dedicated. In the novel, written in the first-person voice of the protagonist, the recurring themes of previous novels - nightlife, drugs, sex, the creative crisis - come to the fore once more... In the university environment there is also space for literary reflection and discussions on aesthetic tastes, all with the expressive fluency and biting wit that are the author's trademark.