Rocco Petruzzi

One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you? and "Where does the world come from?

Solveig, a Norwegian, a former successful actress who no longer works, lives alone in a large house with her cats. Her sister, worried about her, suggests that she rent one of her rooms to Nefis, a young Ethiopian photographer who has just arrived in Norway. By moving in with Solveig, she tries to preserve her space from the invasion of the cats. Her relationship with Solveig starts to deteriorate. Nefis then takes refuge in writing. Solveig secretly follows the evolution of the manuscript and discovers herself by identifying with the character. During these readings, an interaction is created between her own reality and that of the character.

A meeting between the Swedish/French Simone and the Norwegian Stein at a book convention in Frankfurt turns into something more. They keep contact by phone and cassettes, but it seems they don't dare to take the relationship any further.