Zacharias is a recovering drug addict. The departure of his older sister finds him losing his one point of anchorage. Destabilized, recently sober; he’s lost his footing, and something is liable to happen. There’s nothing between him and the rest of the world—oversensitive—he’s naked to the air. He can’t want what he wants. He must be on his guard. He changes trajectory. The only remaining point of reference; what other people want. Zacharias hurtles through the world and hopes to be done.
In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.
When an accident occurs, a group of snails begin to speculate about what happened – but the conversation soon goes off the rails.
The lonely doctor Gabriel Glas despises society's superficiality - until the fashion designer Helga enters his life. She's trapped in a destructive marriage, and Gabriel sees his chance to save her. Soon, they are caught in a web of lies, desire, and power. The deeper Gabriel is drawn into the relationship, the more moral boundaries he crosses - with catastrophic consequences.