Alice is a successful novelist, recovering from a breakdown. Felix works in a warehouse and doesnt quite know what to make of herbut agrees to go to Rome with her anyway. Back in Dublin, Alices best friend Eileen is nursing the sting of a breakup and rekindling an old, complicated intimacy with Simon, a childhood friend who might be something more.

As these four lives weave in and out of each otherthrough emails, chance encounters, and fragile relationshipsthey search for meaning in a world that feels increasingly fractured. They want love, but dont know how to hold it. They want connection, but remain guarded. They are still young, but no longer untouched by time.

With her signature emotional precision and luminous prose, Sally Rooney asks: amid all the chaos, is beauty still possible? And if sowhere do we find it?