A young woman flees the hospital in order to find some space to write down her story in form of a novel. After breaking into a house by a lake she is confronted with the neighbor, who believes she is the daughter of the owner. With the arriving of the house owner the story gets dramatic, he gets killed, the neighbor steals the book and publishes it under her own name. The book becomes a big success while the young sick woman is kept imprisoned by the neighbor in the cellar of her house. When ‘celebrating’ together the success of the book, the two woman start to argue and reality starts to reveal itself.