Sway to stay

Sway to stay: Franca and Ed is the opening volume of a literary series that unfolds the lives of a diverse cast of characters. Franca Ada Ben Isi and Chris: five young people bound by a shared flat by love and departures and by the fragile attempt to hold their ground in a fractured world. They dream of closeness of a home of a future yet again and again they find themselves up against walls of origin money violence language and fear.The story begins with Franca Albrecht a young fashion student struggling to free herself from a destructive relationship with the charismatic yet controlling Ed Meyer. In parallel we follow Ada Landau and Ben Adewale a young couple taking their first apartment stumbling into parenthood and wrestling with the weight of structural inequality. Alongside them are Isi Sonntag reinventing herself as a queer activist and content creator and Chris Wolf preparing to change both given name and legal gender marker - together forming the fragile central constellation of the flat-share.