Ruby is nineteen years old and has just moved in with Jonas. It’s the first autumn of adulthood, and they plan to be free and create a new world together: have great sex and drink fine wine in a living room full of good friends. But something isn’t quite right. Where does Ruby’s insatiable need for validation come from?

Her mother once said: Promise me you’ll never fake an orgasm. And the day Ruby does exactly that, something profoundly fractures within her self-understanding.