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
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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