A small town girl becomes obsessed with her friend's newborn son, to a degree that she develops a "phantom pregnancy".

Mimi has left her mother, and some dark secret, behind in her village to come to the busy, bustling capital for graduate studies. She meets Sara, a former model, now a young mother with a rich, bullying husband. While Mimi works nights in her elderly uncle's kiosk, and occasionally dates passing customers, it becomes clear that it is not Sara's husband but her motherhood that Mimi craves. A succession of ever wilder liaisons brings this psychological thriller to a powerful, dramatic climax.