What is true friendship worth if it can be bought for a day? Unemployed, long adapted to loneliness, Nata receives a job offer to become a "friend for hire". At first glance, everything is clear. listen, talk, spend time. However, each meeting reveals a new life, a new destiny and a new secret.

Nata's clients are different: a lonely teenager, an old woman, a person lost within the family, a successful but empty businessman... Each of them comes not just to talk, but to be heard, accepted and understood. During those meetings, Nata herself also changes, rediscovering people and herself. He gets the answer to the question whether it is possible to set the company on an hourly basis.

A Friend's Tale is a modern, humorous and touching novel about loneliness, human connection, trust and the value of true intimacy in the digital age.