Fairy Dust

Tove Lo arrives at her motel late at night and makes her way from the parking lot into her room. She bursts into maniacal laughter and then screams in rage before breaking into tears, establishing a volatile emotional state that frames what follows.

The next morning, Lorna speaks cynically about women, motherhood, and weddings, claiming independence and enjoying being alone while smoking. She yells through the wall at the neighboring couple, calling the husband a little bitch and accusing the wife of feminism despite wanting her sexual needs fulfilled.

Lorna lies on the bed and says she has ways to numb the pain. The two fornicate, cuddle, and smoke marijuana together on the bed.

That night, Tove drives to a club and wonders why it is not working anymore, noting that it used to be enough all the time. She moves through the club and begins dancing with people who mirror her moves.

Inside the club, Tove dances with people who mirror her moves as Lorna yells at her, sparking a confrontation. Tove retaliates with help from her new friends, and the tension eases when she and Lorna reconcile with a kiss as the lights flash.

After leaving the club, Tove and Lorna drive back to the motel. Lorna recounts how she first met Tove, when Tove loved an older man who did not return the feelings, and comments on how easy it is to die.

Lorna begins to speak about how easy it is to die and forces Tove to crash their car, knocking Tove unconscious.

When Tove regains consciousness, she finds Lorna dousing the car in gasoline and approaching the scene. She tries to leave several times, only to return to the wreck, where Lorna sets fire to her clothes and dies in the blaze.

Tove shaves her head in the bathroom and dances in the motel parking lot with the people she met at the club. Her shaved head persona lingers as she symbolically buries Lorna in the desert.

A short monologue reveals that Tove believes pain can be a gateway to more pleasure and to fearlessness. She sets her motel room on fire, signaling a transformation and a turn toward embracing danger.

In the desert, Tove meets a man and begins a relationship. They return to the motel to have sex, continuing her exploration of sensation and connection.

Sitting outside her room, Tove processes everything that happened and delivers a voiceover about feeling that no one knows her.

During the credits, Tove is shown masturbating on her bed while Lorna watches from the doorway, implying an unresolved bond and lingering tension between them.