Twenty five years old, Toralf Enstad travels to a tiny valley town in the most mountainous part of Norway to work as musical director at a theatre production. He enters an environment full of joy and laughter, and even finds a girlfriend there. But however wonderful this sounds, he finds the situation difficult to handle. The laughter in the theatre group often has a disturbing ring to it, and the closeness to his girlfriend also poses difficulties to Toralf Enstad.

We follow Toralf Enstad during his time with the amateur theatre group, and further through a stint as a kiosk employee and attempts at political activism, until he, at the age of 39, doesn’t see any other option in his life than going to a concert with his old idols, the pop group A-ha. Hoping the show will cheer him up a bit, he wonders if it might not also reconnect him with a fateful phase of his life, a time when most of what he did felt right, but when he nevertheless might have stumbled once or twice.