A teacher returns home from an excursion and realizes there’s been no sight of his wife Eva since the day he left. A criminal detective starts to investigate. Shortly afterwards, the body of a woman is found in a river. Suddenly a mysterious stranger calls on Eva’s husband, who calmly and ominously tells him some unknown and undreamt-of pieces of information about his wife. The film proceeds to lay out each element of the story of Eva, the swirl of her fears, yearnings, addictions, and disappointments, which Carlmar depicts both as a crime thriller and social critique in her intense third feature, even if the true focus is on revealing patriarchal norms and arrogance.