What can the successful, wealthy, elegant Monica - the head physician of one of the Stockholm clinics - and the embittered Mai-Britt, almost immobilized by obesity, have in common? However, each has its own painful and shameful secret in the past, which predetermined the lives of both, depriving them of the right to happiness and love, forcing them to lie to themselves and others again and again, confusing their relationships with the world more and more and finally pushing them to commit a crime. . The rapid development of events, as if in a thriller, inexorably pushes the women towards each other and an unexpected and dramatic outcome.