Séraphin is a ticket puncher on the underground network, so bored with his work he dreams of nature and freedom. But his life changes one day, when he inherits a house in the countryside. It’s a ramshackle home and in the first book, Saraifín is a Mhórshaothar Iontach, as the handiest of handymen with the most brilliant imagination, he transforms this dilapidated building into a truly extraordinary house. But Saraifín’s dreams are on a collision course with the realities of urban sprawl, coming face to face with bureaucracy and developers.