A young man finds love and settles down, but when his young wife spirals into depression they both have decisions to make.
Based upon the novel "Hærværk" by Tom Kristensen about the self destructive person. The literary reviewer Ole Jastrau chooses to free himself from his well-ordered middle class life. He allow the seriously left-wing writer Steffensen move in with himself which soon causes disintegration of his home an marriage.
A man decides to perpetrate a series of killings and publicise them as political acts in an attempt to protest against nuclear armaments.
