Karen is a successful Copenhagen-based fashion photographer who is happily married to Johan, a writer. But she works so constantly that she has little time for her husband and daughter. In her dreams, however, she has erotic encounters with an unknown man in an East European hotel room. At a photoshoot in Paris one day, she meets the stranger from her dreams for real: Maciek, a professor at Warsaw School of Economics and visiting from Poland. She feels an electric attraction that changes her life and begins an affair. She pursues him relentlessly. Her obsession increasingly causes her to lose control.