Love strikes Liv like a bolt from the blue. For years, she has been a happy single, with good friends, especially Mandel, a lively, brown-curly goldsmith. But one day, Liv sees Vera at a bus stop. After an intense exchange of glances, she knows that this is the woman of her previously unimagined dreams: the one! Nothing is the same anymore. Liv is disturbed, can't sleep, and neglects her work at the translation office, where she is responsible for Swedish. She can think of only one thing: Where can she find the great unknown? Weeks later, she accompanies her father to the opera and makes a surprising discovery: Vera plays the lead role in La Traviata! And soon also in Liv's life. Mandel is already at odds with Liv's dream woman before she has even met her. And apparently not without reason, because Vera...