Little Oddemann uses every means available to find Jesus, including his slingshot. The film takes us to Norway in the late '30s, where we meet a series of burlesque and humorous characters, whose antics convince Oddemann that growing up may be a bad idea. Yet Oddemann finds there are certain rewards to being grown-up, such as partying and chasing women, that merit closer examination.

Joakims mother has a new boyfriend. He named Reidar and has two sons the same age as Joakim. But mother and Susan is so engrossed by their infatuation that they do not see how differently their boys are. Dive is a film about constellation "your children and my children", where reality is anything but idyllic despite the sun is shining and it's twenty degrees in the water.