Birgitte Nyborg is the newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs when oil is suddenly found in Greenland. Nyborg ran on a Green agenda, and for her there is no doubt that the oil project must be shut down as quickly as possible, but voices in Greenland - led by the Greenlandic Minister, Hans Eliassen - are, however, of a completely different opinion and so is Nyborg's boss, Prime Minister Signe Kragh.