The small town of Flåklypa is experiencing great lack of snow, which is why the inventor Reodor Felgen is asked to create a snow machine. However, things does not go as planned.
Marianne is a successful journalist in a big newspaper. When her father takes ill, and asks her back home to find a box in the attic containing papers he wants her to burn before reading. But she reads, and then tries to solve the mystery.
The comedian Stig is Norway's most funny man. Ane is his agent. manager and spouse. Together they are dynamite. One night Stig's biggest admirer dies of laughter. Stig is no longer funny, and Ane has to take over for them to survive.