Having just enrolled at a university in Oslo against her stern parents' will the sheltered Biology freshman and devout Christian Thelma leaves for the first time the isolated Norwegian countryside to start a new life away from home. Tangibly lonely a casual conversation and one unexpected friendship with the beautiful fellow student Anja will broaden Thelma's hazy horizons; however as the glacially alluring misfit wrestles with an onslaught of novel feelings little by little an unprecedented psychosomatic manifestation of repressed emotions start to take over. Indeed a mystery cloaks soft-spoken Thelma's past and the more she struggles to renounce her nebulous desire the more violent becomes her quivering awakening. Can Thelma unearth a denied truth behind the stinging temptation?