Copenhagen policeman Robert Hansen (Jakob Cedergren) has been reassigned by his supervisor, the chief of police (Jens Jørn Spottag) in Tonder, to a temporary post as the sole police officer in the village of Skarrild, situated in a boggy lowland. Robert was just out of therapy for a breakdown he suffered after threatening his wife and her lover with a gun. He longs for his stay here to be over quickly so that he can reunite with his daughter, Josefine, who has been told he is in Australia.