Per Skavlan

General director Strøm will create a large Norwegian industrial company to tame waterfalls and put them in pipes. But also his wife Sylvia, the gifted pianist, must be tamed. However, Strøm discovers that human material is considerably more difficult to process than the forces of nature.

En 1941, Rommel tient sa victoire sur les troupes anglaises. Le seul obstacle entre lui et le canal de Suez est la forteresse de Tobrouk, tenue par un petit bataillon de soldats australiens. Le capitaine MacRoberts les dirige et ordonne des raids contre Rommel, ce qui leur vaudra leur surnom de « Rats du Désert ».

The film takes place in the idyllic town of Solsund. Per Haug, a temporary worker, bachelor, amateur painter and leader of the political opposition in the city council, lives there. One day he rushes home from a turbulent city council meeting and angrily paints a portrait of Mayor Abrahamsen.

A group of Norwegians cross the North Sea in winter to deliver Allied soldiers and ammunition to their Nazi-occupied country.