Murphy is an American cinema school student living in Paris. He had a French girlfriend called Electra whom he dated for two years. One day they met and had a no-strings-attached threesome with another woman a young blonde Danish teenager named Omi as a way to add some excitement to their love life. But later he had sex with her behind Electra's back as a result of which Omi became pregnant. This unplanned pregnancy ended the relationship between Murphy and Electra on a horrible note and it forced Murphy to marry Omi. In one morning Electra's mother Nora phones him to ask if he's heard from Electra because she hasn't heard from her for three months and given her daughter's suicidal tendencies. For the rest of this day he recalls his past two years with Electra in a series of fragmented nonlinear flashbacks; how they first met in Paris their quick hookup and their lives over the next two years which is filled with drug abuse rough sex and tender moments.