A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but the harsh conditions on board makes him jump ship, and he ends up in the little town of Misery Harbour. There he meets the girl of his dreams. But his passion shifts to jealousy when one of the men from the ship mysteriously appears in town, and sets out to make Espen's life a misery.
A peace researcher is kidnapped and a high ransom requested. The daughter of the peace researcher hires a bunch of happy amateurs playing mercenaries to rescue his father. Everything does not go as smoothly as planned and they quickly begin to realize that the task they have undertaken is much more dangerous than they had anticipated.
A UFO has crashed close to a summer holiday park and a couple of kids are set to help them with the aid of a man with magic powers. But they have to hurry before an anti UFO force finds the green men from outer space.