Sverre is a kindhearted but taciturn lighthouse keeper who lives alone on the isolated Hvaløya Island. Early one May morning, Sverre gets an unexpected guest, who forces him to face his past.

Everybody is going to die one day. Oskar (70) is going to die in 6 days. He is now ready to forgive his brother for a disagreement years ago. Will he reach his brother, who he believes lives on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, before it is too late?

Four generations, each with a crisis, set in four different parts of Norway on the Norwegian Independence Day.