Copenhagen 1919: A young worker finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmar, who runs an underground adoption agency. A strong connection grows but her world shatters when she stumbles on the shocking truth behind her work.

In 2008, a group of men from Denmark and across Europe pull off the biggest heist of all time on Danish soil. Kasper, a boxer with few chances left in life, is offered the opportunity to plan the robbery by its foreign initiators.

The idealistic prison officer Eva is faced with the dilemma of her life when a young man from her past gets transferred to the prison where she works.

Pregnant fifteen-year-old orphan Cecilia is sent to Ida's secluded mansion to hide pregnancy. Ida and maid Alma provide Cecilia maternal care, forming bond. Their relationship tested as Cecilia's childbirth nears.

We meet the two couples again: Cecilie and Andreas, and their son Leo, and Liv and Malte, and their daughter Sille. Both children are now 2 years old, the families still keep in touch, but live very different lives. During a medical examination, it is revealed that the two babies were never swapped.