In this chilling adaptation of a story by Per Olov Enquist a young man, Drengen (Johansen), violently murders an elderly couple. Two years later Helen (Gråbøl), a priest, is drafted in by psychiatrist Lisbeth (Boysen) to talk to the killer, now a patient in a high-security psychiatric ward. Drengen wants to commit suicide because he believes this is part of God’s plan. Helen attempts to talk him out of it, seeking to unravel the past that made him the fractured person he is. A shocking journey deeper and deeper into the sick mind of a young man’s soul.