The vibrant world of flamenco in Granada, Spain - a mountain-top village in Morocco populated by eccentric expatriates - and the pulsating clubland of Glasgow, concealed behind the city's stately Georgian facades: these are some of the locales where an unlikely relationship is struck up and developed.
Bookish, reclusive Peter has succeeded in reaching middle age without exposing himself to the sort of emotional hell that his parents created in their marriage. But his self-centered world and his carefully constructed defences against all romantic involvements are demolished when his life is invaded by Marco - flamboyant, outrageous, a brilliantly talented dancer less than half his age.
Defying all the odds, and with the help of friends whose own emotional lives become almost magically entwined with theirs, Peter and Marco manage to build their own idyllic little world. But then, prejudice and madness combine to provoke a vicious crime that will surely shatter their hard-won happiness ...
There is tragedy as well as high farce in this tale. None of the characters in this story have easy paths to the fulfilment of their desires or dreams. Bitter strokes of fate have to be accepted and somehow turned to best advantage – but love proves to be the strongest force of all. Humour is as good an ally as any in meeting life's challenges. If there is a moral to be drawn from the twists and turns of this curious story, it is that the unsuspected gifts awaiting us in real life can often make our wildest dreams seem puny by comparison.
Bookish, reclusive Peter has succeeded in reaching middle age without exposing himself to the sort of emotional hell that his parents created in their marriage. But his self-centered world and his carefully constructed defences against all romantic involvements are demolished when his life is invaded by Marco - flamboyant, outrageous, a brilliantly talented dancer less than half his age.
Defying all the odds, and with the help of friends whose own emotional lives become almost magically entwined with theirs, Peter and Marco manage to build their own idyllic little world. But then, prejudice and madness combine to provoke a vicious crime that will surely shatter their hard-won happiness ...
There is tragedy as well as high farce in this tale. None of the characters in this story have easy paths to the fulfilment of their desires or dreams. Bitter strokes of fate have to be accepted and somehow turned to best advantage – but love proves to be the strongest force of all. Humour is as good an ally as any in meeting life's challenges. If there is a moral to be drawn from the twists and turns of this curious story, it is that the unsuspected gifts awaiting us in real life can often make our wildest dreams seem puny by comparison.
