Description
Welcome to Melbourne, a city where the coffee is single-origin and the existential dread is locally sourced. In this town of curated lifestyles and performative wellness, a band of charming misfits is doing their best to keep it weird.
There’s Igor, who has discovered the only known cure for depression: mainlining the cringe of amateur slam poetry. There’s Hector, a man whose biceps are less inflated than his ego, on a sacred quest for a gold pendant. And then there are the rest of them: the corporate zombies, the festival-loving nomads, and the spiritually bankrupt, all flailing beautifully in a sea of organic kombucha and poor life choices.
From a wellness spa that promises to “unsag everything” to a Cypriot restaurant where the bathrooms have seen more action than a UN peacekeeping force, “Like You Have a Choice” is a riotous tour of the places we go to escape ourselves. With a wit as sharp as a shard of artisanal sourdough, Ivan Niccolai lovingly dissects the anxieties and absurdities of our times.
