A novel that, so far, is alll about chsracter and devoid of plot

About 50 pp into Danish writer Dorthe Nors's short novel Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (the title represents three instructions the protagonist, Sonje, receives from her driving instructor) and still waiting for even a semblance of plot to develop. To this point, Nors has given us a fair amount of background about Sonje - she's in her 30s or so, lives alone and seems to have few friends none close, has a strained relationship with her younger and more conventionally attractive sister, is just learning to drive (perhaps not as unusual in Copenhagen for a 30-something to never have learned?), which is of course a metaphor for her life: She is uncertain of direction and cannot "shift gears." She makes her living as a translator of a Scandinavian crime writer, one who in particular writes about gruesome sex crimes (it's not Stieg Larson, but an imagined writer somewhat like him), which again shows that she's a person at one remove from engagement w/ life and with others - life as a translator is another good working metaphor. So I am getting to know this character, which is good and which is part of what we look for in literature, but I also am waiting for something to happen - some conflict, crisis, moment of decision, instrument of change, introduction of new person or element in her life, something to build this novel toward a plot. Yes, it's true, some fine novels are not really about plot - e.g., Proust, Knausgaard - but in those cases there are well detailed episodes and development of character over a long span of time. Can this wisp of a novel - about 150 pp or so - develop enough depth of character to balance out the dearth of action and event?