After the Night: After the Night : the meeting of failures : act II

After The Night is about London in 2013. Or, more accurately, certain quarters in the east: Hoxton, Shoreditch, De Beauvoir, Dalston. Or perhaps it's simply a joke: even more of a joke than La Nuit, the novel it is based on. If so, it may be one that comes at the expense of its protagonists.