Erik never paid much attention to politics. In 1930's Denmark, he coasted through a typical childhood. Then, a class trip to Nazi Germany shakes him awake. Amid the Hitler Youth who fill the streets, he befriends Nikolai Karl Leon Linde, a boy with as many political opinions as his name implies. The two accept a parcel from a strange man in a gray overcoat. This sparks a chain of events that propels them into the fringes of the underground resistance that is tirelessly working to relocate as many Jewish Germans as possible. The fate of a young girl is on the line and Erik must choose how far he is willing to go for another human being and decide if a "nobody" can be a somebody after all.

On a school trip to Germany in 1937 a 14-year-old Danish schoolboy becomes involved in the activities of the anti-Nazi underground.