After American John de Paor quits his job of seventeen years, lets his house go into foreclosure, breaks up with his long-term girlfriend and moves to Berlin, a world stranger than he'd ever imagined opens up to him. Wild, never-ending nightlife, prostitutes, street performers, barroom philosophers, shell-game hucksters, and finally an unplanned pregnancy and a heartwrenching battle to be in the life of his child, Fortuna Berlin is a classic portrayal of life in Europe in the 2010s told from the perspective of a poet and aspiring novelist in search of ever-elusive Lady Fortune.