Psykologen Erik er havnet i et alvorligt alkoholmisbrug, og der er ikke megen hjælp fra konen Lea, der bruger al sin tid på at style deres perfekte Hellerup-villa. Et helt andet sted i Danmark siger hjemmehjælperen Inge sit job for at melde sig til DM i pælesidning, mens IT-gulddrengen Jens opfinder en handicappet bror for at imponere modellen Gry.

A snapshot of the state of the Danish nation: in one of the stories, a woman enters a pole-sitting contest in a desperate bid to reinvent herself. Another is about Erik, whose wife has been lobbying a Better Homes and Gardens type magazine to do a spread on their perfect home. When the editors finally relent, she makes Erik sip his red wine in the laundry room lest he stain their cream-colored couches. Svend, the last remaining Marxist in Copenhagen, is the impassioned organizer of a political mass meeting where no one shows up. Finally, Jens, a pizza and porno connoisseur, connives his way to some booty by convincing Gry the model that he lives with his mentally challenged brother. Over the course of a week, their paths cross and nothing, and nobody, is ever quite the same again.