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In Copenhagen a young woman, Delphine, falls in love with an untitled painting she has seen in a gallery, by the French painter Jean-Luc Foreur. She cannot help writing him a fan letter, to which he replies briefly. This is the beginning of a correspondence that develops over the next eighteen months. Soon the letters grow more intimate and Delphine begins to bare her soul layer by layer. As the man reveals himself mysteriously through his letters, her dependence grows, and her feelings for him turn into a grand passion. She has become concentrated body and soul with longing for the lover she has never seen. Eventually a meeting can no longer be postponed.