Meet the Mikkola sisters: Ina, Evelyn, and Anastasia. Their mother is a Tunisian carpet seller, their father a mysterious Swede who left them when they were young. Ina is tall, serious, a compulsive organizer. Evelyn is dreamy, magnetic, a smooth talker. Anastasia is moody, chaotic, a shape-shifting presence, quick to anger.

Ina meets her future husband when her sisters drag her to a New Year’s rave, only to suffer the ultimate betrayal. Evelyn drifts through life before embarking on a wild career as an actor. And Anastasia runs off to Tunisia, where she falls in love with a woman who, years later, will transform her life.

Following the sisters from afar is Jonas, the son of a Swedish mother and a Tunisian father. Over the course of three decades, his life intersects with the sisters, from a chance encounter in Tunis to the scene of a fighter jet crash in Stockholm. When Evelyn disappears on a trip to New York, Jonas manages to track her down—and helps her to break the curse that has been looming over the Mikkolas for decades. In the process, a shocking revelation changes everything about who they think they are.

A young man named Samuel dies in a car crash. Accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel's story. Through conversations with friends, relatives and neighbours, a portrait of Samuel emerges: the loving grandchild, the reluctant bureaucrat, the loyal friend, the contrived poser. The young man who would do anything for his girlfriend Laide and share everything with his friend Vandad. Until he loses touch with them both.
When Samuel's grandmother moves into a nursing home, he and Laide - an Arabic translator determined to protect vulnerable women - secretly turn her house into a refuge. But Vandad, struggling to find work, marginalised and broke, sees an opportunity to get closer to Samuel and make a buck at the same time - and after disaster strikes, the question of who did what drives a wedge between the friends.
Told with tenderness, wit and stylistic ingenuity, Everything I Don't Remember is an enthralling tale of love and memory, and an exhilarating narrative puzzle. It is also the story of a writer who, in filling out the contours of Samuel's life, is trying to grasp a truth about himself and all of us - in the end, what remains of our fleeting memories? How do we account for the substance of a life?