<p class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body"><b><span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Long after they're gone, childhood friendships can define and destroy us-</span><span>or be the one thing that saves us.</span></b></p><p class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body"></p><p class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body"><span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">In a small Swedish coastal town in 1986, 12-year-old Elliot dreams of being a video game designer. When he meets Calvin, a stuttering outcast with a knack for drawing, the two make a pact to create the greatest game ever made. Together with neighborhood friends Lisa and Skye, they gather their ideas in a folder, but external influences pull at the strings of their tight knit group.</span><span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none white-space-prewrap"></span></p><p class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body"></p><p class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body"><span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">More than twenty years later, Elliot is a pariah, his status as a highly sought-after designer in the games industry squandered after he sabotages his own studio. But his biggest regret is his estrangement from Calvin&#8212;whose tragic passing means that any chance of repair is now gone. But when Elliot receives Calvin&#8217;s old folder with their unfinished project, the past unravels before him. He sets out to honor his late friend&#8217;s dying wish, gathering the studio back together to build the game of their dreams&#8212;while slowly picking up the pieces of his life.</span></p><p class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body"></p><p class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body"><span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Celebrated Swedish novelist Andreas Roman&#8217;s English language debut is a deeply affecting redemption story that explores why we hurt the people we love, and how to come back from it.</span><span class="OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none white-space-prewrap"></span></p>