Ride Upon The Storm

Denmark, 2017. The Krogh family have been priests for more than 250 years, and when we meet him, Johannes, the current head of the family, is headed for the absolute top as the bishop of Copenhagen.

Johannes realizes that his considerable show in his job as priest doesn’t really fit into the bishop’s plans, which doesn’t exactly please him. And it also creates friction in the relationship between Johannes and Elisabeth.

A completely changed August returns home to Copenhagen - to the great bewilderment of his closest family, who don’t understand what’s going on. It isn’t until the press get wind of what happened in the Middle East and an avalanche starts rolling that August confides in his father.

A dazed and bruised Christian wakes up in a monastery in Nepal. Everything he owns has been stolen, leaving only himself and an overwhelming sense of guilt. While he recuperates, a young Buddhist monk tells him about the teachings of Buddha.

Christian returns home from Nepal with a completely changed outlook on life. An outlook that he - in the family’s summer cottage where he moves in temporarily - sets down in writing.

Christian visits Amira in an attempt at atonement, only to discover that she has left Mark. They slowly bond over the book that is gradually taking shape based on Christian’s experiences in Buddhist Nepal.

The disastrous Easter lunch results in considerable changes in the inner circle surrounding Johannes.

August starts working as a street pastor where he ends up drawn into a case of two brothers staying illegally in Denmark - both of them are rejected asylum seekers. He becomes deeper and deeper involved in the brothers’ fate and does everything he can to help them. He even gets Emilie involved in the case, which, in the meantime, the police have started to show an interest in.

With Amira’s help, Christian buys his own apartment. His great, unresolved love of his youth, Nanna, shows up and tells a story that further cements the already poor relationship between Johannes and Christian. Christian’s relationship with Amira is also put to the test. Elisabeth is deeply divided between Johannes and Liv, who wants Elisabeth to come with her to Berlin...

This year, the grand traditional Pentecost service at Johannes’ Lindegard Church is attended by a pre-eminent guest, the bishop of Copenhagen, as well as a range of priests that Johannes is head of. It finally seems that Johannes has normalized his relationship with the bishop and his colleagues.