More

Having recently graduated from college, relatively straight-laced German Stefan Bruckner hitchhikes to Paris where he plans to live a little and burn all the bridges and formulas of his life. In befriending a petty criminal named Charlie who shows him some kindness, he meets New Yorker Estelle Miller, under whose spell he immediately falls. She encourages him to join her in Ibiza where she will be spending the summer. In Ibiza, Stefan finds that she runs hot and cold toward him despite she being the one who suggested he come. When she does run hot toward him, together they embark on a hedonistic life of liberated sex, nude sunbathing on the seaside rocks, drinking and smoking weed. When she runs cold, he eventually sees that she seems more scared of something, that something which he ends up believing is a someone, namely an older wealthy German named Dr. Wolf, at whose hotel she stayed when she first arrived on the island and to whose house she often disappears days on end without a word. It seems as if he has some control over her. Stefan eventually learns why she is scared of Dr. Wolf, it being something from her past, that past of which Stefan was aware but thought that it was just that: the past. In his obsession with her, Stefan gets sucked into all that is Estelle, that obsession which proves to be more consuming and dangerous than he may have anticipated.