A Danish fisherman with economic problems due to fishing quotas takes a marine biologist, a city girl doing research on fishing quotas, with him out fishing 5 times for extra quota. He takes her sightseeing. They fall in love.

Kesse is a third-generation fisherman living in the small, windblown town of Hirtshals in Northern Jutland. As a result of new fishery policies and the global financial crisis, the smaller fishermen are slowly succumbing to the pressure of competing with larger fishing enterprises. Kesse is struggling to survive, desperately holding on to the only way of life he knows. But desperate times require desperate measures, so increasing financial pressure forces Kesse to find more alternative and notorious ways of making ends meet. This leads him to meet his polar opposite: female marine biologist Gerd.—Film Maker ApS