Benedicte discovers that her family is hiding a dark secret. Her grandfather’s brother, Karl Marthinsen, was a prominent Nazi collaborator and police leader during WWII.

Marthinsen from a fishing village in northern Norway becomes the most important partner of the Nazi occupants in Norway. A fanatical National Socialist. Ambitious, effective and extremely dangerous.

The resistance succeeds to assassinate him, but the assassination ends with terrible consequences.

This story has been unknown. But his family has lived with the shame. The resistance had to live with the decision they made and those who survived his cruelty have never forgotten.