An attractive, intelligent woman who's about to turn thirty, Fanny Fink lives alone in a graffiti covered housing project and has a job frisking female passengers at the airport. She's been single for the past four years, and her isolation and loneliness have made her cynical about love and relationships. Determined to try and get a grip on her life, she keeps herself busy and throws herself into a variety of bizarre activities, all the while praying that love with somehow come her way. When Fanny befriends Orfeo de Altamar, an exotic Afro-German psychic, her life suddenly begins to change. She opens herself up to new experiences and begins to live in the present.