Morgan has traveled from Norway in hopes of finding a prostitute to complete his sexual initiation. Instead, he finds his doom with a highly neurotic couple. Gerda is a sweet-tempered thing but is inextricably bound to the ominous Jor, a writer who is self-obsessed to an unusual extreme. While Gerda hopes that she can use her new relationship with Morgan to free herself from the writer, Jor has no intention of allowing that to happen.