Dag is a successful director of television commercials who lives with his girlfriend, Halley. Dag has a persistent wandering eye and multiple flings, a pattern Halley tolerates for a while. When Halley discovers that Dag slept with Rebecca — a beautiful yet troubled ballet dancer dating Dag’s close friend Peter — she can no longer pretend nothing is wrong. The situation intensifies when she finds a voicemail from another woman, Paula, asking to meet Dag. The double betrayal pushes Halley to end their relationship, setting off a chain of dramatic and unsettling events that ripple through their circle.
Halley, seeking something different, crosses paths with Andre, a refined classical musician who is, in fact, married to Colleen, a woman with tastes that push boundaries. Colleen’s world collides with Peter’s when she meets him on an airline flight, and a reckless fling in the plane’s bathroom follows. A moment of misfortune then spirals into catastrophe: a cell phone call from Peter triggers interference with the plane’s control signals, and the aircraft crashes just before landing. The disaster spares the first-class passengers but devastates those in economy, with Colleen killed after an ambulance run‑over and many others burned beyond recognition. In the aftermath, Peter’s furious confrontation with Dag draws Paula’s attention, igniting a dangerous entanglement that Paula is quick to exploit.
As Andre, Peter, and Rebecca mourn their respective lovers, Paula moves through Peter’s tightly knit network, and fear begins to take on a life of its own. The plot twists in a way that blurs the line between fate and manipulation, as the new acquaintances Paula gathers start dying in alarming numbers, framing the sequence as something almost fateful, almost ritual.
At Rebecca’s funeral, Peter speaks a line that seems to reach beyond the moment: “Can we take it back from you can flat-out dance?” This question marks a turning point as the story rewinds to earlier moments. Dag returns to Rebecca’s room, where she propositions him again; this time he refuses and leaves. In a parallel thread, Dag is with Halley in their building, while Rebecca confesses she came onto Dag. Peter, furious, breaks up with Rebecca, though the two still end up sharing one last night together. Halley, feeling betrayed, shares a kiss with Andre as he plays, and Colleen witnesses this, throwing flowers at him in a gesture of envy or vengeance.
In the end, Dag begins to consider giving up his serial philandering, while a tense encounter with Paula leaves her angry. Dag and Halley walk away together, but Paula lingers on the fringes, her thoughts turning toward murder as she fantasizes about killing them both. The film closes on this chilling note, leaving the audience with a sense of a tangled web where desire, betrayal, and murder loom just beneath the surface of normal life.
