Iodine

Friendships, flings, therapy sessions and
sarcasm — all you need is a dash of Iodine
to survive your thirties in the city

A wildly funny and deeply relatable portrait of a generation
stuck between youthful hedonism and emotional burnout.

Set in contemporary Barcelona, this irreverent, choral novel
follows a tangled group of friends and lovers — gay, straight,
neurotic, disillusioned — as they drift between hookups,
hangovers, and half-hearted therapy. Fernando is still in love
with his high school best friend Alfie, who’s married to Silvio,
a discreet writer chronicling the mess of their lives. Karim rages
online while trying to forget Nadine, who’s still haunted by the
city’s most hated film critic. Eugènia grieves her lost nightlife;
Alicia only tolerates her cat and her friend Helena; and Toni,
ever clad in priestly robes, wrestles with repressed desires.

Iodine is a vibrant, chaotic, and bitingly honest comedy
about love, loneliness, and the tiny wounds that mark us
— the ones we treat with a splash of red antiseptic and
a good laugh.