At twenty, Lilja falls in love with a bright and attractive young university student who quotes Derrida and prepares vegetarian meals. Very soon she finds herself trapped in a dynamic of manipulation and psychological abuse, and enters a whirlwind of personal degradation and obsession with pleasing him -sexually, intellectually and culinary-, a self-destructive drift of which she is aware but before which, isolated and humiliated, she, can't react.
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