The Second World War rages across Europe. Norwegian Daniel Berkåk works as a courier for the media and military office in Stockholm. With his bag full of coded documents and newspapers, he is sent on a mission across the Norwegian-Swedish border. The delivery never makes it. Daniel is shot and killed on the Norwegian side of the border, and the documents disappear. The exiled Norwegian authorities want to get to the bottom of what happened to him, and the task is given to the well-known author Jomar Kraby, who faces a dangerous mission of discovery.