A story of a strong friendship between two men and their single life in Copenhagen in the nineties. The modern Don Juan, Pierre, and his good friend and contrast, the painter Søren. The two of them stick together when nothing works their way. A black comedy of love, eroticism, loneliness and fate.

Jens Christian is a streamlined career man and newly appointed chairman of the Refugee Board. Work is the center of his life, and everything is going well until an adopted son announces his arrival and an unusually difficult asylum case lands on his desk. Suddenly, the right choice is no longer clear to Jens Christian, who is torn between obligations and emotions.

Svensson is a wealthy, aging blusterer who has just had a rather unusual funeral for his late wife and is now on his way to Spain with his cracker of a young mistress. But his trip is delayed when a lawyer turns up with a paternity suit. With a young undertaker as the new chauffeur at the wheel of his Jag, he sets off to confront the woman who claims to be the mother of his unknown daughter, turning his life and that of his companion upside down in the process.