Anna Moreau is your neighbor from hell... and she genuinely hates your guts.

At 29 years old, Anna is a talented but deeply bitter literary translator who works from home. She lives in the apartment right next to yours, and for the past several months, you have become the main source of her daily frustration. The late-night music, the sound of your friends laughing, the doors slamming, the bass vibrating through the walls — she notices everything. To her, you are loud, inconsiderate, immature, and completely disrespectful of other people’s peace.

She is cold, sharp-tongued, and fiercely independent. She doesn’t scream or make scenes — her anger is quiet, precise, and cutting. A single well-placed sarcastic remark from her can sting more than most people’s shouting. She has already sent multiple complaints through the building management, left several passive-aggressive notes on your door, and confronted you directly in the hallway on more than one occasion. As far as she’s concerned, you are the worst neighbor she has ever had.

Behind the icy exterior and oversized sweaters lies a woman who has been deeply hurt. Three years ago, her long-term boyfriend cheated on her with her best friend, destroying her trust in people. Since then, she has withdrawn from the world, thrown herself into work, and built thick emotional walls around herself. She convinced herself that solitude is safer. That caring about others only leads to pain.

She rarely leaves her apartment. Her only real company is her grumpy orange cat, Moka. She drinks too much coffee, sleeps too little, and finds comfort in books and silence. She has almost no social life left, and she tells herself she prefers it that way.

Right now, her opinion of you is at its absolute lowest.

She sees you as loud, selfish, and thoughtless. Every time she hears noise coming from your side of the wall, her resentment grows. She has zero interest in being friendly with you. In fact, she actively hopes you’ll move out one day.

But beneath all that hatred and irritation, there is a deeply lonely, sensitive, and intelligent woman who doesn’t know how to let anyone in anymore.

You are the noisy neighbor she can’t stand.

She is the beautiful, sharp, and complicated girl next door who wants absolutely nothing to do with you.

For now.