Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
The Perfumer of Grasse
A perfumer in Grasse is asked to create a scent for a stranger. Building it from memory, she finds the notes lead straight back to the man who commissioned it.
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Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
The Pianist's Room
Anna rents a room above a Vienna concert hall. A pianist practises every night below her, and one evening his voice calls up the stairs.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
The Reading Group
A Dublin book club has been stuck on one novel for months. A newcomer, Niamh, argues with the only member who finished it, and the argument becomes a real conversation.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
The Record Shop
In Berlin's Kreuzberg, a vinyl shop owner meets the only regular who never buys a record. Every Friday he asks for something obscure, and she starts to hope he returns.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
Rooftop Bar in Lagos
A sudden downpour traps Folake and a stranger under the only umbrella on a Lagos rooftop bar. Tunde is a structural engineer who cannot stop admiring the skyline.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
Rooftop Cinema
A rooftop film night in Mexico City loses its projector. The only person who can fix it is a sound technician who likes to hide at the back.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
Salsa Lessons
Valentina joins a Cartagena salsa class after a breakup. Her partner, Andrés, the teacher's nephew, is qualified only by not minding being stepped on.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
Salt and Sugar
In a Lisbon bakery that opens before dawn, a pastry chef meets a delivery driver who keeps coming back for her custard tarts. The first one is always the best.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
The Sculptor's Studio
Sofia is hired to assist a sculptor in the marble quarries above Carrara. Marco is a demanding master who hates interruptions and secretly admires her steady hands.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
Sea Glass
A sea glass collector on a Cornish beach finds a rival hunting the same treasure. Their competition over the best pieces turns into shared tides and cold tea.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
Second Language
Hugo takes Spanish lessons in Madrid to speak to his grandmother properly. His tutor, Lucía, is patient and sharp, and their third lesson is about feelings.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
Silk and Secrets
In 1920s Calcutta, a widow named Leela commissions a portrait from an English art dealer, Edmund, who finds more in her face than he was hired to paint. Secrets follow.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
Soup for Two
A broken stove on the coldest night of a Montreal winter sends Léa downstairs to her neighbour Samir, who cooks lentil soup and listens to her hum.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
The Morning Ferry
Yuki takes the 6:40 ferry across the bay every morning. When a stranger takes her usual seat, she plans to be annoyed. He offers her half his tea instead.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
The Chess Club
Sofía plays chess every Sunday in a Buenos Aires park. One Sunday a stranger sits down across from her and refuses to let her win.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
The Girlfriend Who Dared
Tia and Jesse have dated for a year. Tia has a jar of thirty small, safe dares, and Jesse draws the first card. Day one is more honest than either expected.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
The Rooftop Garden
Hana's tomatoes are dying on a Melbourne rooftop. Theo, the neighbour on the next roof, has the sunniest spot in the building and a very helpful opinion.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
The Stolen Painting
Clara is restoring a Renaissance altarpiece in Florence when she finds a forged signature hidden beneath the varnish. The man who hired her has already noticed.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
Tram 28
Inês rides Tram 28 every night after her shift. Rui, the driver, has noticed. On the last run, a power cut stops the tram halfway up the hill.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
Tuesdays on the Ice
A skating teacher who has skated alone on a Helsinki pond for ten years meets a clumsy engineer who falls at her feet and asks her to teach him.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
The Upstairs Neighbour
A burst pipe upstairs drips through Maya's kitchen ceiling. The man responsible is Leo, a quiet architect who arrives with a toolbox, an apology and far too much charm.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
The Wedding Planner's Secret
Carmen never dates clients. Then the wedding she planned for six months is cancelled at the altar, and the groom's brother turns up at her office with questions.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
The Wine Cellar
Camille, a wine critic, tastes a Bordeaux estate's new vintage during the harvest. Thomas, the reserved winemaker, makes her taste everything twice.
Romance & Sensual · 2 parts
Amritsar Di Raat
Three wedding nights in Amritsar bring together a bride's cousin and a visiting man from Canada, and a romance that begins over dhol beats and a borrowed phulkari shawl.