Asgeir Möller has inherited his uncle’s business as an art dealer. He sees it as the chance of a lifetime and moves to Oslo, where he makes the acquaintance of Kristin Sundqvist, a television reporter. She is approached by a “deep throat” on behalf of a covert racist organization whose members include a number of prominent public figures. At the same time Asgeir is invited to join in an operation engaged in laundering money through his newly acquired art business.
Asgeir and Kristin find themselves drawn ever deeper into a world of illicit currency dealing, terror and racism, and before long they are unable to decide who is a friend and who is an enemy. A seemingly endless series of revelations gradually embroils them in an intrigue that is destined to have undreamed-of consequences.