For fans of The Secret History: When Charlie arrives in Edinburgh to start university, he soon meets Xi and Liliane, the best students of the literature faculty. At first cold and distant, their mutual interest in literature brings them together. As time goes on, Charlie falls for Xi, only to realize that Xi and Liliane were luring him in to use him for their criminal activities: stealing a medieval book. Feeling betrayed, Charlie falls down the rabbit hole of loneliness and fighting through adolescence. A coming-of-age story about loneliness, anxiety, friendship and the question of what role the humanities play in today's modern society.