Summer of 1989: Karl is 23 years old and wants to leave his unhappy youth in boarding school behind. An Assistant Teacher job in Columbia, Missouri is the sought-after opportunity to reinvent himself. There he falls in love with Stella, one of his students. All rationalism proves itself relative in the face of feelings she elicits in him which he understands just as little as her peculiar knack for defying gravity, if only briefly. Is it a dream, imagination or what people call reality? Stella takes Karl to meet her parents who live on a farm in the rolling hills of Missouri. Stella’s young, beautiful mother starts a game he’s no match for. Karl is fascinated. He seeks her closeness even though he knows he’s putting his love for Stella at risk…