"Nymphomaniac is the wild and poetic story of a woman’s erotic journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg). On a cold winter’s evening the old, charming bachelor, Seligman (Stellan Skarsgard), finds Joe beaten up in an alleyway. He brings her home to his flat where he tends to her wounds while asking her about her life. He listens intently as Joe over the next 8 chapters recounts the lushly branched-out and multi faceted story of her life, rich in associations and interjecting incidents. "
Alongside Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stellan Skarsgard, Nymphomaniac also features Shia LaBeouf, Willem Dafoe, Jamie Bell, Stellan Skarsgard, Uma Thurman, Mia Goth, Udo Kier, Christian Slater and Connie Nielsen.