A meta-fictional, deeply psychological portrait of an erotic novelist, Kylie Jensen, whose profound creative and personal crisis mirrors the themes she writes about.
Trapped in Copenhagen’s gray light, Kylie Jensen writes cheap smut for a living. Her stories are full of heat, but her own life is defined by a cold, gnawing void. As deadlines loom and her agent pushes for sweeter, safer romances, Kylie embarks on a desperate, self-destructive quest for inspiration. She plunges into the city’s underbelly, using her own body and psyche as research material, chasing a raw authenticity that her genre commodifies and her own cynicism mocks.
Sex Novel is a raw, autobiographical-feeling exploration of artistic burnout, loneliness, and the search for a genuine voice when every feeling has a price tag. It’s a story about the stories we tell to survive, and what happens when the fiction runs out.