Sofie is a successful married mother of two starting a six month consultancy helping indie publishing house Lund & Lagerstedt turn digital in order to survive. At work she is frustrated multiple times by Max, the young IT consultant whose noisy drilling interrupts her day. Sofie tells Max to drill off-hours and so he comes in late at night to finish his work, inadvertently catching Sofie masturbating at her desk and taking a picture of Sophie in the act. The next day he shows her the picture and teases her by loudly drilling near her office. After Sofie offers Max money to delete the photo, he surprises her by asking her to simply buy him lunch at Burger King. After allowing her to verify that the photo is gone, Sofie steals Max's phone, saying she will only return it in exchange for Max doing something fucked up at work.

Sofie learns that the publishing house has committed to a multi-million dollar advance to actress Lena Endre. Hoping for a gossipy confessional about her romance with director Ingmar Bergman they are surprised to find the end product a poorly written dreck and that Endre's relationship with Bergman was purely professional.

At work Max challenges Sofie to yell at someone who is not him. When her attempts go awry she finally succeeds in yelling at a man who bumps into her on the street and later discovers the man was Endre's agent and because of the kerfuffle the press is now releasing Endre's memoir unedited.

The publishing house deals with the details of The Train an award-winning novel they published which is being turned into a movie to be aired on StreamUs. Tired of viewing successive versions of the movie, Friedrich signs off on the final version of the film without seeing it, only to discover the ending has been drastically altered. Unable to change it, Friedrich finds himself unable to tell the author the truth.

After learning that Ronny has sold his company to StreamUs and that he intends to implement a hiring freeze, Sofie counsels Max to become a permanent employee of the company. After being refused by Ronny, Max complains to his roommate, who employs a harebrained scheme to get Ronny to change his mind.

After having sex at the book fair, Sofie tries to avoid Max. When he turns up at her home they are interrupted by her husband. Sofie later apologizes and the two reconcile, eventually having sex in Max's crowded apartment.

Sofie tries to play the good wife and mother at home, but her daughter's birthday is interrupted by her father's left-wing ravings, causing a disaster for the entire family.

Rattled by her father's stint in a psychiatric ward, Sofie focuses on protecting her daughter Isabell who is overcome with grief. When her husband makes fun of Sofie for using a metaphor from her abandoned novel to comfort Isabell, she decides to go behind his back and allow Isabell to see her father.

After learning that Sofie brought their daughter to visit her father in the psychiatric ward, her husband makes vague threats about her mental health which cause Sofie to quit her job and accept his suggestion that they move to London for a year. She abruptly breaks up with Max at work, telling him that they were only playing a game.