Joel lives with his father in the cold northern part of Sweden. His mother has left him and his father and Joel desperately wants to know why. At night he often sneaks out of the house to look for a lonely dog he has seen from his window. On the bridge across the icy river he starts a secret society, but gets into serious trouble by listening to his young so-called friend Ture.
And then, when he returns home frome one of his nightly adventures he finds his father's bed empty...