13 year old Felix cannot feel the cold. He lives a stress-filled life with his mother, where he struggles to hide her addiction from the world - especially from his best friend Anton, who comes from a classic nuclear family dynamic. As time passes, the difference between the two families becomes more and more apparent to Felix. Shame and envy cast doubt on Felix, and he begins to wonder whether he can continue to be in a friendship where cannot be honest and does not feel understood.

When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees — or stand firm in the Danish resistance against the Germans?