A vacuum cleaner salesman is found dead in the harbor basin in the fishing village of Bud. The police claim it was an accident. But young, newly hired journalist John Grande is certain it was murder. Together with his only good friend, the thoughtful and clumsy fisherman Sverre, he begins to unravel the case.

A young man with a troubled past puts on the mask and sets out to clean up the drug underworld in Molde, Norway.