Klara did not have any expectations before coming to Italy for 5 months. She left her normal, sometimes boring life behind her in her hometown Prague, Czech Republic, and welcomed Italy as her new home for the next few months. She frankly didn't have any expectations apart from one: to finally experience something that other people would call cool.
She definitely didn't see Marco coming, her pretty italian flat-mate, she didn't see Juli coming, the gorgeous German girl, and she definitely didn't see so many other things coming as she only wanted to look back at her italian-self back after those 5 months and say: oh, I changed.
This is a sweet story about studying abroad, relationships, making friends, parties, drugs, finding growing up into new identities, and of course a bit too much of Aperol Spritz.
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story may contain: alcohol and drug abuse, sexual language and references, explicit language, sensitive topics
Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld.
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When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying!
[[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]]
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