Sensitive 12-year-old Alf is the low man on his class' totem pole, and he's sick of it. Forming a secret, Machiavellian alliance with another student who also has grown weary of being bullied, he hatches a plan to throw a wrench into the well-oiled gears of the school social order. Everything seems to go according to plan, until Alf discovers that turning the tables on his tormentors has its own dire consequences.

Two teen boys meet each other in Copenhagen and team up to find one of the boys' mother. Instead they end up finding themselves - and each other.

In the attempt to achieve the perfect Christmas, everything goes more and more wrong.

Amna is plagued by sleep paralysis and has difficulty concentrating. She lives with her family, who are orthodox Muslims, but are themselves in doubt about their faith. She takes off her veil when she is at the University of Odense, while she and her mother in the mosque follow the family's religious traditions.