
In 1968, the young high-school teacher Knut arrives in Larvik, Norway, dreaming of a bourgeois existence, but also with an inner discord that soon pushes him toward the seductive Marxist-Leninist party. He's a gentle, intellectual man, with doubts about the revolutionary ideas. Only when he meets a young medical doctor, Nina, do the absurd and utopian ideals seem achievable. The two become lovers and their intense relationship lasts until a fatal party annual meeting, where Nina exposes her own shortcomings, and says goodbye to Knut. He stands by her, however, as a friend and admirer, through the party's fall, worker strikes and the revolution's eventual demise.

