De mødes som så mange andre studerende på en café. Men mødet på café Jorden i Århus mellem Astrid og den noget ældre Jan udvikler sig til en passion, der både går ud over deres tidligere forbindelser og fuldstændig forandrer de to elskende.
En københavner og overklassedreng, der skiftede miljø og blev soulmusiker, og pigen fra pløjemarken, der ville være akademiker. Langsomt åbner de sig for hinanden, og til syne kommer blandt andet to mørkerædde børn med hver sin uhyggelige historie.
Dorthe Nors is a Danish author and writer. She is the first Danish author to be published in the American magazine The New Yorker. She was born in 1970 and studied literature and art history at the University of Aarhus. After publishing three novels, she wrote Karate Chop, her collection of short stories, in 2008 and Minna Needs Rehearsal Space in 2013. She has seen her short stories in various publications, including The Boston Review, Harpers and The New Yorker, and has contributed to anthologies in Denmark and Germany. Having international acclaim, she lives in rural Jutland, Denmark.