Birgitte Nyborg receives crucial information about the Russian owners of the company which is drilling for oil in Greenland. Asger Holm Kirkegaard, who is now on Greenlandic soil, is trying to help his minister while also trying to keep Hans Eliassen in check. Nyborg is called to the Foreign Policy Board, and to help a close ally, Nyborg decides to use a bold tactic which turns out to have greater consequences than she could have ever imagined.