Michel is crazy about Bérénice, the love of his life for nearly three whole weeks now. But one morning, she unexpectedly leaves him. Tranquillizer-dependent Michel gives himself 12 hours to win her back with the recipes for happiness he finds in the positive-psychology books she left behind.

Michel, who is prone to depression and finds hope in Michel Houellebecq’s books, decides to take up the greatest challenge of his life: winning her back. His only weapons? The recipes for happiness in Bérénice’s collection of positive-psychology books.

We might as well admit it from the get-go: it ain’t gonna’ be easy!

Happiness Is Down the Hall on the Left is a droll yet desperate search for happiness over a backdrop of contemporary urban despair, the collapse of the western world, the failure of ideologies, the masculinity crisis, the climate crisis, and the Nutella crisis.