'New York: no city in the world like it - not London, not Paris, not anywhere...New York is what life is all about...being alive in a wild and sensual Manhattan...the purest poetry there is...'

Inge, Finnish model cum photographer cum diarist on Manhattan life, roams the urban jungle of winty New York surviving on a diet of sex and vodka. She and her fashion-photographer lover Hal mix with the mad, the bad and the beautiful at the parties, gallery openings and bars of the Upper East Side. But Inge's thoughts are buzzing with the disappearance of her fellow blonde Finn, Karen, she of the icy Nordic beauty and the world-famous nude center-spread, who went travelling to Morocco and never returned...