A psychiatrist is counting down towards his upcoming retirement. He lives alone in his childhood home and has neither friends nor family. His social life consists of brief conversations with his meticulous secretary Madame Surrugue, who has reigned over the clinic for more than thirty years. Until one day, that is, when a young German woman called Agatha arrives and demands to see the doctor and he soon realizes that underneath her fragile exterior is a strong and fascinating woman. A bestseller in Denmark.