Shocking insights: Tea-Bag is a refugee girl from Sudan. In Sweden, she meets a celebrated author. A moving social novel by Henning Mankell. Jesper Humlin is having a tough time. He is a renowned poet, but his publisher insists that he finally write a crime novel. His girlfriend wants to have a child with him, the value of his stocks has fallen, and his over eighty-year-old mother has started a phone sex agency. Then, at a reading in an old friend's boxing club, he meets Tea-Bag and her friends. Tea-Bag is a black refugee girl from Sudan. She and her friends want to become writers and learn from Jesper Humlin. Gradually, he learns their stories: about Tea-Bag and the invisible monkey, about Tanja, the Russian who steals mobile phones en masse and uses a lockpick.