Although she appears to have everything Veronika (Sarah Michelle Gellar) a young and beautiful woman from Slovenia decides to take her own life. Her attempt fails and when she wakes up in a mental hospital in Slovenia she is told she only has a short time to live. Her presence has an affect on the patients at the hospital and she falls in love with Eduard (Jonathan Tucker) who suffers from schizophrenia. Ironically Veronika realizes that being in a mental hospital gives her a kind of new freedom where she can do whatever she wants and not worry about what people think. She explores all the things she ever wanted, love, sexual exploration and even hatred.