Freezing cold temperatures and a rising blizzard: there is no way for the criminal investigation of Tromsø to get to Skjervøy, the next stop of the cruise ship MS Midnatsol which belongs to the Norway Express Route, the Hurtigruten. Around hundred passengers are aboard and one of them has perished. Although everything indicates a suicide, the exact circumstances need to be further examined. Arne Jakobson, an ordinary officer from the small town Skjervøy, takes on the investigations. Soon another passenger is fighting for his life. Now Arne Jakobson cannot assume any longer that those two incidents have been accidents. What he does not know, is that the American Secret Service and the Russian Secret Service are interested in what is happening aboard. Despite the snow storm, even the officials of the German Federal Criminal Office make their way to the Norwegian-Russian border, to get to the northern turning point of the Hurtigruten, Kirkenes, for the great showdown...