Nora Sand is a journalist working as a foreign correspondent for a Danish newspaper. At the peak of her career she's accused of having had an affair with one of her sources in a big case. Nora gets suspended, travels home to Denmark.

April 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, source of the iron ore needed for Hiter's war machinery. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, Hitler is dealt his first defeat.