Niels Oxen is Denmark's most decorated hunting soldier. During battle in Mali, he loses his best friend because his superior, Major Hannibal Frederiksen, lets them down. Oxen succeeds in persuading the chairman of the defense committee, Johnny Gregersen, to set up a commission of inquiry to uncover the process. At the same time, the head of PET, Frigg Mossman, is conducting an unofficial investigation into a secret power network in Denmark.