Watching his neighbour, who likes to go around topless, from his balcony he notices a new neighbour (Riley Keough) who has a small white dog. Later he starts up a conversation with her, gets invited into her apartment and the two start to flirt. When her roommates reappear suddenly she ushers him out and says he can see her tomorrow.
The following morning she and most of the contents of the apartment are gone. Sam decides to investigate.
No good will come of this.
CW: nudity and lots of male gaze/objectification of women
David Robert Mitchell goes for more mystery than is perhaps sensible in this now cult hunt for a missing object of desire.
It's filled with enigma, dream and surrealism as Sam drifts through a world of bohemian parties filled with hot people who maybe know stuff.
Early on I struggled with it as Sam is a distinctly unlikeable protagonist but as the weird metatextual conspiracy evolves it gets pretty compelling. I can see why some people are utterly captivated by it.
Lengthy but packed with material I'm not sure I'd recommend it for everybody but it's got a certain something 7/10. It may also just very quickly give you the ick and that is almost certainly by design.