Henrik Birch

As a result of new fishery policies and the global financial crisis, the smaller fishermen are slowly succumbing to the pressure of competing with larger fishing enterprises. Kesse is struggling to survive, desperately holding on to the only way of life he knows. But desperate times require desperate measures and so, due to increasing financial pressure, Kesse is forced to find more notorious and alternative ways of making ends meet. This in turn, leads him to meet his polar opposite, the female marine biologist Gerd.

An American B-52 bomber loaded with four hydrogen bombs crashes at a US military base in Greenland in 1968. Years later, journalist Poul Brink investigates the incident, uncovering a conspiracy involving the Danish and US governments.