Gondolen is a multi-plot film about a young writer from Stockholm possessed by his theory on light and darkness- a metaphor for people connecting. We follow him and four other characters who through their own vanity and various conflicts eventually prove his theory to be right.
The general manager at a highway-side ''sports bar with curves" has her incurable optimism and faith, in her girls, her customers, and herself, tested over the course of a long, strange day.