Lena Ferben has been married to her husband Tore for years when she suddenly loses herself. Doctors call Lena’s condition retrograde amnesia; the reason being undiagnosed inflammation of the brain. As a result, she can no longer access what medicine calls biographical memory. And how strangely the brain works: The language is still there, but the words are not linked to any experience. Comedy… fidelity… sex… love… husband…

Words floating in a vacuum, cut off from their basic meanings. Tore tries to help Lena find a way back to what he was to her and she to him: a retelling of a reality already experienced. But while those around her feel only the loss of the old Lena, she herself follows a path of her own. What is it like to be this Lena Ferben? Lena tries out the role like an actor, while something new emerges from within, an individual personality that resists doing what Lena’s environment is encouraging and urging her to do – to become herself.