Benedikt von Karbroich — marketing tycoon, seasoned seducer, and occasional wearer of cashmere loungewear — has spent the better part of three decades evading anything with emotional depth. His hobbies include charm, denial, and strategic escapes.

Enter Inez Bellavista: an Italian artist with a sketchbook, a moral compass, and absolutely no interest in being anyone's midlife epiphany.

What follows is a civilised collision of genders, generations, and general misunderstandings.

Dances With Women is a razor-sharp satire about romance, reinvention, and the perilous act of growing up — at any age. Dry as a martini, occasionally messy, and with more than one pair of metaphorical trousers on fire.