With "Trainspotting", his first novel, Irvine Welsh established himself in Great Britain as the most worthy representative of the new generation of British writers, a generation that owes as much to the writing of William Burroughs and the beat as it does to the anger of Johnny Rotten and punk.

While in "Trainspotting" the chemical particles of a generation's life that flirted with emptiness were the center, the "whole" of its existence, in "Ecstasy" that same generation of techno and jungle tries to escape from the claustrophobic web of drugs and reach out to a world that awaits it to live within it. Now, the ingredients of the chemical cocktail function as a catalyst for the exploration of human desire. They trigger reactions and quietly pass into the background, like elements randomly added to a chemical compound, leaving us, the viewers, to witness the results of this union. Now, E corresponds to Love.