No One's Leaving

A young woman travels through Europe in the late nineties after she learns of her ex-girlfriend's suicide, whose ghost follows her around. She meets an array of people, including a tarot reader, a gay farmer, an expat trans woman, and a French lesbian with a dreamy pit bull. Discovering new love and friendship while remembering the struggles of her past relationship, the story weaves between the narrator's present-day adventures and coming-of-age love, sewn together by existential conversations with the ghost of her ex.

NO ONE'S LEAVING is curated to a soundtrack of Gen X music—from Jane's Addiction to The Cranberries to PJ Harvey—and touches on themes of queer love, heartbreak, grief, and mental health.

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