Kristoffer, Karoline, Jonatan, Marikken, Jesper, Ole and Aurora are finally out of the Norwegian school system. They don't know each other very well, and they don't have a lot of plans for the upcoming year.
Axel is in love with his neighbor Anya. She however shows no interest in him. He is shy but finds comfort in incel and radical right wing groups online. His world comes crumbling down when she finally rejects him and Axel decides that if he can't win her over in the real world he will try to win her over in his dreams. Little by little he gets lost in his dreams and desires.
In the near future a new phenomenon starts happening all over the world with powerful flashes of light occurring in the ocean and people from the past mysteriously reappearing. Called "beforeigners," these people come from three separate time periods: the Stone Age, the Viking era and late 19th century. A couple of years later, Alfhildr – who comes from the Viking Age – has to partner up with a burned-out police officer, Lars Haaland, to investigate the murder of a beforeigner. The pair begins to unravel a larger conspiracy behind the origin of the mysterious mass arrivals.
