Natalie Bjerke Roland

Norwegian Christmas calendar where 24 santas compete to be the last man standing.

The spark in Lene’s marriage is long gone and when she suddenly loses her job at a prestigious advertisement agency, she feels lost and humiliated, wondering what to do next. One drunken night, she posts a scantily clad picture of herself wearing a traditional folk costume – mostly as a joke – on the website InsideFans. Lene soon realizes there is a niche audience out there who are thirsty for more and willing to pay for it.

They are a tight-knit group of young gearheads: Glenn Tore, or GT, Sivert and Hege are all about cars. Not much else around to be into, honestly. Mechanic GT, the group’s leader, seems to have all the charisma and self-confidence, until his girlfriend dumps him. Outside, everything seems fine, but his inner engine begins to break down. Sivert gets himself into trouble when he gambles and loses a chance at his dream.

Robert moves from the Polish countryside to work on a fish processing factory on the coast of Norway. There he falls in love with Ivar who is openly gay and a member of the workers union. Robert is hiding his sexual orientation from the other Polish immigrant workers. When Ivar helps the Polish to start a strike for better working conditions at the factory, Robert has to choose between money or love.

Desperate to find her daughter, a mother teams up with a social worker. As their search deepens, dark secrets emerge, threatening to unravel her carefully constructed facade and drag her back into the nightmare she thought was over.

As the dysfunctional Thorbjørnsen family gathers for their annual Christmas dinner, the oldest son, Tormod, seizes the opportunity to introduce his newest relationship: Maria. The dinner puts inherent judgments to the test.

Prime Minister Alma Solvik gets caught up in a scandal before elections. During Alma's term in power, her husband Sondre has done transactions on the stock exchange apparently using the government's inside information. Alma puts together a crisis communication HQ that formulates the tactics for communicating with the public. The Prime Minister is also a prime minister at home and therefore they launch the campaign "Sondre is the culprit" – the elections must be won, after all.