Ling, mid-20s, lives in Chongquing. There she meets Qian, a Chinese business traveller who lives in Berlin. He gives her an iPhone as a goodbye present. They start a romantic telephone relationship. When Ling flies to Berlin to see Qian, another man, Marco, awaits her at the airport. He is Qian‘s German bodyguard. He is to make sure that Ling flies back home.

Over two days Ling meets Turks, Poles and Berliners, waiters, policemen and whores, even a dog joins her. For the bodyguard she causes more pain than pleasure, and still he grows to like her. In the end Ling finds Qian and leaves him at the same time, in a way that is surprising to both of them.

Love during the time of the World Wide Web. Distant yet close. Close yet distant.