A young boy lives alone in a small room in a block of flats, with a phone ringing constantly, without anyone at the other end. He runs away, soon to follow everyone telling him to, until he gets involved in a search for a missing girl.
It depicted the children's relationship to the war 1940-1945. Rolf Riktor's father was arrested and sent to the prison camp Grini and his mother travel to Oslo to look for him and get the opportunity to visit him at Grini. The children however do not get an opportunity to visit the prisoners.
