Like Your Cup of Coffee!’ is a point-of-view story told through a series of memories from 1998. The person recollecting events in 2017, is a forty-three year old Englishman named Antwan. In 1998 he was a twenty-four year old, wide-eyed, naïve idealist, a former coordinator for international relations, posted in a sleepy, picturesque mountain town in Japan. Whilst on a fabulous holiday in the Philippines, Antwan encounters sixty-three year old, morally dubious, lecherous, brusque and acerbic Dutchman, Joop Schip. He also befriends the sweet and simple, recently married Filipino lady Eureka, a twenty-eight year old engineering graduate.

Antwan learns that Eureka intends to visit Japan with her husband. He invites them both to stay with him despite having never met her husband. Eureka takes Antwan up on his offer and duly visits him with her husband in Japan, staying outside his small ground floor flat in their camper van, inadvertently providing Antwan with an unpleasant and unwanted surprise. Throw in a gap-year Swiss traveller, the acerbic Bruno who happens to be visiting Antwan at the same time as Eureka and her husband, and you have a recipe for trouble. What ensues is a psychological, cultural and generational clash over attitudes around male and female relationships.