After a night out celebrating with his German colleagues, a Norwegian trade union leader ends up getting mugged by two prostitutes. Owing to the help of an unlikely Samaritan, he rediscovers the joy of helping the little man.
Iris, a 28-year-old studentin a big city, recently left by her boyfriend and too poor to pay her rent, begins to work for a strange old man. He wants Iris to precisely describe the trivial belongings of a dead woman, packed in white boxes, to keep the memory of the woman alive. Iris is disgusted...