The hairdresser Ida is relieved when her doctor tells her that she has overcome her breast cancer. But when she gets home, she catches her husband in bed with the young bookkeeper from his painting business. The rug pulled out from under her, Ida decides to go to Italy alone for her daughter's wedding. In the airport parking garage, she damages the car of a rich vegetable wholesaler. Coincidence or fate? In any case, the man is the father of the groom. Rather involuntarily, Ida and Philip travel to the south together. "The Bald Hairdresser" – the movie's original Danish title – is a romantic comedy of a slightly different kind. When Ida, who has lost all her hair during chemotherapy, takes off her wig, her grief and pain come to light. At the same time, Dyrholm's heroine retains her charming quick-wittedness and openness to all the things that life may still have in store for her.