A semi-autobiographical humor novel set in China, Korea and Hong Kong. A girl from Norway runs away from the snow and moustaches plaguing her home country and accidentally ends up in China. Here, her life-long suspicion of having been born in the wrong country is confirmed. Burning a trail of misadventure through China and Hong Kong, she lives out a fantasy of living like a suffering dissident Chinese scholar. Immersing herself in her surroundings, Kat lives, loves, eats, drinks, studies, and then teaches Chinese language, Chinese men and Chinese culture. Hers is in no way an ordinary expat's life, and by the end of the book she finds that her one true companion is her own razor-sharp wit.