Jonas Schulman lives a quiet life in the small village of Slusvik; wife, step-daughter and an easy job. But when he is blackmailed by his neighbor and best friend Geir, it emerges that he has a dark past, and that he is not the only one in the city with a new identity...

A corpse has been found, and the small community is starting to get cold feet. Jonas, for his part, is terrified of an investigation and does everything he can to put out fires. At the same time, Sofie gets into trouble at school.