Suburban teenager Ida grows up outside Oslo, is starting off with drugs and meets the homeless alcoholic charmer Knut, which soon is her big love. Destined for a hard life in drugs and alcohol, how can they turn their lives around?
The lonely, divorced and disillusioned lawyer Lex Larsen comforts himself by drinking "Brun Bitter" helps out a small boy finding his lost bike, and finds himself hunting a serial killer in a undercurrent of sex and violence.