Seven women and three men leave the city to avoid the Covid pandemic. They isolate together in the country, where they pass the time working, flirting, eating, drinking, making music, and, above all, telling stories.

For some, the lockdown was a time of bitterness and conspiracy theories. It was a hard time for almost everyone. But it was also a time when most people did what they could to look out for each other. The Lockdown Tales: Emergence follows ten people, seven women and three men, through the second, more stressful year of the lockdown. It tells their stories as they form new relationships and put old ones under stress, and start looking ahead to a post-lockdown future.

As with the first volume, The Lockdown Tales, it also contains the stories that our ten characters meet together to tell each other. Their stories are moving, bawdy, absurd or satirical, and occasionally tragic. These stories are very human, and always compassionate.