A man and a woman. She: Pernilla Brigido, once a celebrated theater actress, now, at nearly seventy, a charmingly elegant and vivacious lady of Viennese society. He: Ildefons Krehmayr, known as Illo, twenty years younger, a well-off builder and divorced father of a teenage daughter, who has so far been moderate in his passions and ambitions. A chance encounter brings them together, and a wonderfully impossible love story begins, in which Pernilla and Illo move with the grace of practiced dancers, until one takes a wrong step and crosses a line. Yet when the curtain rises again, the two lovers have already embarked on a summer road trip against all reason...