Looking for an apartment to rent in Paris was pretty good fun at the start for Chris – a great way to get to know the place and practice his French too. Until, gradually, things started to go awry. Piles of paperwork; apartments mysteriously deprived of curtains, light fittings and even kitchen cupboards; financial conditions that seemed impossible to meet...

It becomes a make or break mission. Can he overcome the system? Or will he become one of the excluded and be forced to return to Australia?