Three of the original characters from Going out in the Midday Sun have now combined their talents to open the Mad Dog Cafe on the Southern French coast. Joined by new staff, friends, lovers and family members they pit their wits against bureaucracy, increasingly bizarre weather and life-changing surprises to make their venture a success. Set in France, with forays into London, Scotland and Las Vegas, The Mad Dog Cafe is the third part of a trilogy spanning twenty years in which the heroes are challenged with the everyday: the joys, dramas of their new venture as well as stalkers, near death experiences, and quite possibly the end of the world.