A bittersweet multi-plot story about how life doesn't always work out the way you planned. Pelle is in love with Dagmar and really wants to reveal this to her but his drunken dad keeps getting in the way. Rasmus can't accept that his newborn son is seriously ill and ends up distancing himself from his wife in order to try to hold on to the hope. Aksel wants to get back together with his ex-wife and is using his daughter as a go-between until the day when his ex-wife suddenly brings home a new boyfriend.