The film is about the longing for a new language, a language that can grasp things at the limit of what we can understand and perceive. A unique form of communication, a place where words are not enough.

Two police officers lie dead. The swede Ekstrøm and the youngster Gustav flees the scene of the crime. Based on a real double murder in 1926, this movie remained almost unseen for 57 years. When the film was set to premiere in 1950 one of the murderers, having served a full sentence, went to court to have the film stopped.