Marion is actually a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed in her new novel, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the flat in. Marion starts to reflect on her life when she hears a woman tell she finds it more difficult and harder to keep her own life. After a series of events she's to comprehend her unemotional attitude from the people around her affected them as well as also herself.