 Emma, a young author, goes to see Erik, the publishing editor whom she s sent her debut novel. Their meeting leads to a love affair. The middle-aged Erik leaves his wife. What Erik doesn t know is that Emma recently began a relationship with the dramatist Stefan, whose play is also being published by Erik s company. One day Stefan overdoses and is brought to the emergency ward where Erik s wife Ann works as a doctor. These incident is the start of the story about how four people s lives are crossed during ten years, until the four of them finally end up in the same loneliness they started.