刚刚和妻子离婚的卢卡斯（麦斯·米科尔森 Mads Mikkelsen 饰）目前在一家托儿所工作，心地善良个性温和的他很快就受到了同事和孩子们的喜爱，其中，一个名叫卡拉（安妮卡·韦德科普 Annika Wedderkopp 饰）的早熟女孩对卢卡斯尤为的亲近。面对女孩幼稚 而单纯的示好，卢卡斯只能婉转的拒绝，可令他没有想到的是，这一举动将他的生活推向了风口浪尖。
卡拉报复性的谎言让卢卡斯背负起了性侵女童的罪名，一时间，这个好好先生成为了整个小镇排挤和压迫的对象。好友的愤怒，前妻的不信任，爱犬的死亡和陌生人的恶意让卢卡斯几近崩溃，而当小小的卡拉吐露真相之后，恶意却并没有随着卢卡斯的重获清白而划下句点。

A film about self-destruction, romance, and everlasting friendship: Ossy and Jimmy are childhood friends from Copenhagen and together they share an experience of a wild life in Thailand. Some years ago Jimmy gave that life up and settled in Iceland, where he now lives the life of ordinary people: a steady job, a wife, and a child. One day Ossy - carrying a deadly secret and in great need of his former confidante - suddenly turns up in Iceland....