This short novel is a story between two people who are seeing each other on a dating site. The drama is due to their different situations in life, where the impact of surrounding events is an obstacle to develop their relationship. They live on different continents, their mother tongues are different, their life situations are different and their socioeconomic bases are also diverging. The question is if they will be able to overcome the obstacles they are heading to?

"In the parallel" is a standalone fictional story which is a continuation of the book "Afrodisiaca online" by the same author who is a storyteller living in Spain, where she lives as a pensioner after a long career as a language teacher in Swedish, French and Spanish.