Somewhere in Paris there is a windowless room filled with trafficked Eastern European women who are all named Natasha. They bicker and tease each other about their misfortunes, as the Head Natasha prepares them for the arrival of 'the woolen man.' Beatrice, a depressed young jazz singer from a genteel Parisian suburb, wakes up with an itch in her throat, and coughs up a name she's never heard before - Polina. That day she meets a woman of the same name who buys her a long black-lace dress, visits her at night, and whispers in her ear, 'There are people who leave their bodies and their bodies go on living without them. These people are named Natasha.' In the same city, Cesar, a lonely Mexican actor working in a multi-lingual call-centre, receives the opportunity of a lifetime, to be on a famous French TV crime series. His role: a Latino serial killer. But nightmares from the past taunt his present, and as he prepares for the audition, he starts falling in love with the psychopath he is to play. These people share a city, but each of them is trapped in their own private world of humiliation and anxiety. And yet, as their paths overlap, the possibility that they might find some kind of freedom begins to emerge --.