Four places - Bremen, the Greek islands, London, California. Four eras - the wild twenties, the strange beginning of the thirties, with their philosophical quests, the nervous end of the thirties, when the most terrible war in the history of mankind was already in the air, and the feverish pre-war American the fun of the early forties. Four stories about how a "spiritual tourist" - narrator Christopher Isherwood - is in search of a new way of life and a better future, meeting completely different people along his life's path. And all together - the novel "There , visiting." The novel is funny in some ways, but at the same time sad and, undoubtedly, very personal.