The early 1990's: 300,000 Danes are out of work. Viggo, a machinist with two grown children, is silent about feelings, scared he'll lose his job, loud about the value of trade unionism, ...
Welcome inside "The Blue Munken", a charming corner bar filled with lovesick dreamers. Her are the artist which never sold a painting, the writers with no books on the shelf and charmers without girls. One day Anita turns up.