 After his wife Marjan has died in a car crash, Philip de Wit becomes a total wreck. Only after months does he return to a more or less normal life and even then he only works in his wife s bookstore. A year later Eileen walks in the store, a girl from Northern Ireland with her baby in her arms. When Philip sees her, he s dumbfounded, for she s the spitting image of his dead wife. Obsessed with her, he goes and tries to find her again, but he soon finds out that he s not the only one who s looking for Eileen.