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Rose has always been close to her father. Her mother died soon after she was born, so it’s been just the two of them for as long as she can remember. But a chance encounter days before she's due to get married leaves Rose questioning everything she has ever known. The man she trusts most in the world has been keeping a secret from her. And the truth will leave her with an impossible choice.

Céline, Julie, and Sabrina come of age at the start of a new millennium, supporting each other and drifting apart as their lives pull them in different directions. But when their friend dies by suicide in the abandoned city lot where they once gathered, they must carry on in the world that left him behind—one they once dreamed they would change for the better. From the grind of Montreal service jobs, to isolated French Ontario countryside childhoods, to the tenuous cooperation of Bay Area punk squats, the three young women navigate everyday losses and fears in a tumultuous century.

Vappu Helander on jättänyt television ajankohtaistoimituksen taakseen ja aloittaa uuden työn lehdistöneuvoksena Suomen Oslon-suurlähetystössä. Syksy on koittanut ja hänellä on työsuhdeasunto trendikaupunginosassa sekä tornadonpunainen tuliterä Beetle. Suorapuheinen Vappu ei kuitenkaan sopeudu aivan saumattomasti diplomaattietiketteihin, ja hänen avantouintitaipumuksensa saavat norjalaiset pitämään häntä hulluna. Toisaalta on norjalaisillakin omat omituisuutensa. Joitain ihan tutustumisen arvoisia miehiäkin Vapun tielle sentään osuu, jopa Ruijan rannoilla asti.

Seventeen-year-old Tyler lives in one of Edinburgh’s most deprived areas. Coerced into robbing rich people’s homes by his bullying older siblings, he’s also trying to care for his little sister and his drug-addict mum. On a job, his brother Barry stabs a homeowner and leaves her for dead, but that’s just the beginning of their nightmare, because the woman is the wife of Edinburgh’s biggest crime lord, Deke Holt.