Crushed by the betrayal experienced in her last relationship, Samantha travels to Barcelona, to escape, recover and attend the Sonar music festival. As soon as she arrives she knows she is in the right city for distractions, and sets her mind to experience them.
Then she meets James, a tall, interesting man with innumerable friends and a seemingly impossible range of experience. James is, what Samantha would call a Distracting Man, though at first, she dismisses him. Once they are hooked up however, Samantha finds a cure or the deepest pain in his arms.