Based upon the novel "Hærværk" by Tom Kristensen about the self destructive person. The literary reviewer Ole Jastrau chooses to free himself from his well-ordered middle class life. He allow the seriously left-wing writer Steffensen move in with himself which soon causes disintegration of his home an marriage.
A young man finds love and settles down, but when his young wife spirals into depression they both have decisions to make.
A man decides to perpetrate a series of killings and publicise them as political acts in an attempt to protest against nuclear armaments.
In 1970s Denmark, the criminal police in a provincial town solve different criminal cases, when the police was dominated by men and DNA was not yet a tool in investigation.
