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A prickly hot summer evening in Copenhagen. A noisy party visits The Little Mermaid. Women. Young, beautyful women. Wealthy women. Dressed in pinstripe and on their way to paint the town red. They swig Dom Perignon from the bottle. They laugh. Hand-rolled cigars caress their painted lips. It's a hen night. Mona (Sofie Gråbøl) is getting married, Anne (Ellen Hillingsø) is making her wedding dress. They are bosom friends, but someone has come between them. Anne's lover, the mysterious Dr. Lack (Sverre Anker Ousdal). As the others head on into town, Anne leaves them without an explanation.

The champagne is zinging around in Mona's head. She is hurt. She knows that Anne is just going home to have sex. She decides to follow her and find out just who this Dr. Lack is. She finds his surgery. She steps into the vast hall. It is hot. She is dizzy. She goes up the staircase and slips into his apartment. All is silence. Long, dark passages. Lack is calm. Mona is not. She is drunk. Lack is silent. And Anne isn't there at all. There is something about Lack. His eyes. As if they suck you in. He talks of Anne as his "patient". And suddenly asks Mona alle the questions she has been dwelling upon as her wedding approaches. What is passion? Do you know yourself? Are you honest to yourself?

Mona realises that Anne has got involved in a sect led firmly by Dr. Lack and his cool wife Karen (Stina Ekblad). A sect which offers its diciples a better life. At first Mona feels drawn by it, but she soon sees from Anne that this "better" life is a life of fear, uncertainty and bruises all over your body. Dr. Lack turns out to have been sacked by the psychiatric wards of the hospital where he worked because his methods were "incompatible with general hospital practice". Anne is way out of her depth. At the same time, Mona's wedding is getting dangerously close. Her fiancé, Martin, works in Hong Kong and is impossible to get hold of. But Martin's mother (Ghita Nørby) and his sister Bolette (Camilla Søeberg) are looking after everything from the seating plan and invitations to a home for newly-weds. Mona is more absorbed by Anne's problems.

It grows harder and harder to get through to her. One evening Mona and Anne get drunk, and it's like the old days again. They agree to go away together and make a mutual dream some true; to visit the island of Mystique. But the next day, when Mona comes fetch Anne, she has left. Not to Mystique, but for Orø - the island where Dr. Lack leads his disciples into definitive phase on the path to a better life. And there is only one thing Mona can do. She follows Anne.... (oficjalny tekst dystrybutora)