39-year-old Anni involuntarily has to move back in with her mother after a scandalous incident on live children's television. It looks bleak for the single, broke and homeless soon-to-be 40-year-old, but is it all that bad after all?

Robert moves from the Polish countryside to work on a fish processing factory on the coast of Norway. There he falls in love with Ivar who is openly gay and a member of the workers union. Robert is hiding his sexual orientation from the other Polish immigrant workers. When Ivar helps the Polish to start a strike for better working conditions at the factory, Robert has to choose between money or love.