Laura is lucky—she’s recently received a Young Artists Grant to write her novel, right on the edge of turning 30. No one she remembers from high school writing classes or graduate humanities classes is making a living by writing. Despite her grant, Laura takes on odd jobs like teaching high school writing workshops. For 85 euros, she accepts an assignment to write a 5,000 character feature about a book. She lives with her mother and pinches pennies at a budget gym alongside her friends. Laura grew up in Lisbon, a city that is rapidly changing, becoming less livable for people like her. Laura’s life rhythms will be familiar to many creatives or underemployed people. Mosi sticks to rounded line drawings to reflect the monotonous nature of Laura’s life. She needs to write, but she also needs creative fuel, and the constant hum of social media isn’t helping. While Laura stares down an empty document and tries to start writing, she’s constantly surrounded by social media panels, daily Sagittarius horoscopes, and internet searches. Between her trips to the gym and memories of her past phys ed classes, Laura tries to determine what she thinks about the world. When she meets up with her married lover, she opens up a little, but still chooses to go off on her own instead of spending the night. Throughout, Laura replicates a common pattern: doing anything but writing to inspire her writing.