In a world where emotions are reflected in the environment, your coffee overflows when you're sad and a light breaks when you're shocked. Everyone has these emo-chemical reactions. Everyone, except sixteen-year-old Melle Berends. Sometimes he doubts whether he really feels anything at all. Until his girlfriend Veerle breaks up with him. Then all his feelings combine into an all-destroying force: his heartbreak attracts a comet to the earth.