Irene Beckman has two adult children, a house in a prosperous suburb of Copenhagen and a successful career as a family lawyer. She is considered cool, sophisticated and exotically good-looking. Her concern for the horrors of the world around her is conscientious but perhaps a little disengaged; after all, life goes on.
Then her husband announces that he's leaving her, and her mother reveals some unexpected information about Irene's father. Quite suddenly Irene is neither wife nor daughter, at least not as she has understood these things. Nor, she realises, is it at all clear who she has been all these years.
Now she is going to find out.
