The teenagers Lasse and Geir are arrested after making trouble on a night bus into town. After a night in the slammer they go home. To Geir's alcoholic mother and to Lasse's father, who is terrorizing the entire family.
Douglas is a slippery stuck-up policeman, working in the intelligence services, who thinks his status makes it ok to make other people's life miserable.
Viveca is 31 and divorced, having a 6 year old son. She has moved together with her friend Aud, living as artists. We follow them in five days filled with many happenings and new acquaintances.
When a married doctor brings home a gay medical student that he's smitten with, his wife goes along and the three try to build a non-traditional relationship. Then society's homophobia intervenes.