Julie Øksnes

The film describes how resistance fighter Knut Magne Haugland operated an illegal telegraph station on the roof of the National Hospital in 1944 during World War II.

"He Who Hangs By a Thread" - Work and conflicts at a clothes factory with only female workers, where we meet the the suffering and tired low paid sewers.

The film follows a gang of unemployed youth in the little town of Svolvær, Lofoten, starting up an illegal radio-channel called "Radio Feskslog".

We are in NRK’s Nine O’Clock News studio at Marienlyst. As usual, Kjell Tue is at the microphone, and in the control room, Totto Osvold is at the helm. Bank manager Hugo Oswald is to be interviewed live, but suddenly collapses dead in the studio, poisoned in front of an open microphone. Police detectives Helmer and Sigurdson are assigned to the case. Pensioner Brockmann, the murdered bank manager’s neighbour, also becomes heavily involved in the investigation.

The story is set in a Norwegian town in the late 1940s. At the center of the plot is Clara, a young woman who is hopelessly in love with her former teacher and is forced to undergo a cruel abortion, which was illegal at the time.