Copenhagen, 1988. Keeping her mouth shut was never Charlotte Ankerstjerne’s strongest suit, and so she has been demoted from her prestigious position at the Ministry of Justice to prosecutor for speaking out against the illegal denial of family reunifications for refugees. She despises her new boss, who dumps the hardest cases on her. Asshole that he is, he has plenty of reasons to hate her — a woman, a Greenlander, and a rumored troublemaker. 

 

Despite her snobbish parents’ ambitions of her making something “more” of herself, Eva Eksell has followed her dream of becoming a police officer. She’s damn good at it, but her parents keep pressuring her to go to law school. Eva, still harboring some hope that her parents might one day accept her choice, finds it hard to say a firm no and move out of their house. 

 

When Charlotte and Eva meet in court, they’re drawn to each other, and a steamy one-night stand turns into more. Charlotte is determined to stick out her job for a year and then go into private practice to fight the system, but her temper — a result of her childhood in foster care — brings her into constant conflict with her superiors, while Eva struggles to pull away from her overbearing parents and embrace her identity openly. 

 

A tragedy of police negligence affects them both deeply, and Eva risks her job and her dream of becoming a detective by going to the press. Charlotte is still hesitant, but with Eva at her side, she has to decide between exposing the abuse of power she knows about from her past job and securing her attorney’s license so she can achieve her goal of fighting for justice.