Signe’s relationship with her boyfriend, Thomas, is toxic. Literally. Both desperately needy and competitive, their pass-agg games of attention-seeking one-upmanship perversely make them perfect for each other. Or each other’s worst enemies. When Thomas’s kleptomania gains him a small amount of artistic cred, his newfound notoriety rankles Signe so much that she deliberately devours poisonous pills in a kind of Munchausen syndrome sans proxy, knowing that the results will be impossible to ignore.