Leonard Kocan

Karla is a breast cancer survivor who is attending a speed dating event for cancer survivors. One man after another visits her table but they all seem impossible to talk to.

Richard Wagner is working on his new opera "Tristan and Isolde". Mathilde Wesendonck and her husband, the silk-merchant Otto Wesendonck venerate Wagner. Mathilde is turning from a loving mother into a muse of the new music.