Colleen, a naïve young American touring Europe just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, falls in love with an experienced traveller named Florian, who encourages her to do something she knows she should not. They become separated. Colleen, carrying the resultant load of guilt through the rest of her travels, but still in love, sets out to find him. With the entire European continent to search, she realises she does not really know that much about him after all, having only a few vague leads to follow. A year later, having confronted her guilt and learned some uncomfortable truths about herself with only her drug-addicted friend for company, will she still love him? Will she ever love anyone or anything again?