Deep diver Bricks has had 524 diving operations with inspecting oil installations in the deep North Sea. He and his friend is to retire. They are persuaded to a last lucrative job, When the diving bell is stuck 100 meter below sea level.
The summer of 1951 a couple get their first and only child. A boy. Or is it? Ouside the birds stop singing, and there's a solar eclipse. The parents deny an operation which could make Adrian a whole human being.
Two 16 year old petty criminals steals a car and are followed by the police in a dramatic car chase, and when they boys are about to run off by foot, one is shot by the police. This changes the other boy's life.
Episodefilm basert på tre noveller av Knut Hamsund, opdatert til moderne tid. Den første delen skildrer en maler som livnærer seg på å smugle ikonmalerier fra øst til vest. Den andre delen ...