Fish Out of Water

The early 1990s 300000 Danes are out of work Viggo a machinist with two grown children is silent about feelings scared hell lose his job loud about the value of trade unionism interested in his pet fish and argumentative at dinner His wife Oda puts up with his moods and works on family genealogy When Viggo is laid off he becomes a fish out of water hardly looking for work starting a garden and taking up with Karen a polished but unhappy widow He lies to his wife about a union training and goes to Mallorca with Karen When she stops the affair Viggo ends up in a psychiatric ward and must figure out whats really important in his life and in his character