Torunn Neshov is thirty-seven and when her grandmother dies, she has to deal with her father’s side of the family for the first time. Her father Tor runs the family farm in Byneset outside Trondheim. He is the eldest of three brothers, and the only one with children.
Suddenly Torunn becomes an heiress, after having built a life of her own in Oslo. Her father’s brother Margido, who runs a small funeral parlour in Trondheim, is torn between religious belief, doubt and an insistent widow. Erlend, the youngest of the brothers, is a renowned window dresser living in Copenhagen with his boyfriend, also facing fundamental choices, ones that are quite different from Torunn’s.