Two urban neurotics test their relationship potential on a spontaneous trip
A woman and a man decide to set off for two weeks on the West Coast of the United States – nothing unusual, apart from the fact that they hardly know each other.
The couturier Ora and the narrator of the novel met at a wedding party. Both are experts in romantic catastrophes and moderately optimistic at best. Not surprisingly, their relationship takes a slow start, but they nevertheless decide to go on an adventure together. Their stops along the way are places from Ora’s favorite song, June on the West Coast by Bright Eyes – that’s as much planning as they’ve done. Nothing can really come out of this trip – or maybe something can. That’s what they want to find out.
With a wonderfully light touch and delicate humor, Michael Kumpfmüller shows us what happens when two people begin, slowly but surely, to open up to each other in the middle of an unfamiliar environment. Their road trip turns into a Woody-Allenesque comedy of finding and missing each other.
