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Contact weaves together three interrelated stories of loneliness, disconnection, and quiet transformation.
Tallinn. Rita is a nurse assigned to take care of a 16-year-old paralyzed boy Rene. She has been instructed to talk to the boy as part of his therapy, so she starts telling him about her own life, hoping that it would heal them both. Her mother died by suicide when Rita was just a child; she has fallen out with her father, a very self-absorbed and work- oriented person. But there’s one happy moment she remembers – a brief affair with a Danish boy Johan during the Singing Revolution. He had promised to write, but never did. Through talking to Rene, Rita finds new strength to abandon her self-pity and move on. Rene manages to move a finger – it’s been a breakthrough for them both.
Helsinki and Stockholm. Anton and Georg travel in search of funding for a cosmology research project. Anton clings to the idea as a last chance to redeem himself, haunted by guilt over his wife’s suicide and estranged from his daughter Rita. Georg, once his student, has turned to business and is himself cut off from his daughter Anne. Confined to hotel rooms and old tensions, the two men are forced to confront what they’ve been running from. Anton finally decides to abandon the project — and search for the daughter he lost touch with.
Copenhagen. Released from a psychiatric hospital, Johan is living alone in the house that used to belong to his parents – members of a doomsday sect who took their own lives. Anne, who had moved to Denmark from Estonia after quitting university and falling out with her father, has been appointed to be Johan’s support person. With the two feeling equally confused about their lives, they become each other’s lifeline