grantaire is a world-weary singer sick of having his creativity stifled by his record label. enjolras is the passionate young revolutionary trying to change the world who storms up to grantaire to complain in person about the damaging message of his latest hit single. grantaire is instantly smitten and, in between writing songs to help enjolras’ cause, ends up penning a dozen odes to the colour of the other boy’s eyes and the way his skin goes gold in the first light of the morning.