Pørni is about the dilemmas that you end up in when you, to the best of your abilities, try to do the right thing for your loved ones, and yourself. In that order. Pørni has two daughters with a jerk of an ex who has moved to Copenhagen, who focuses mainly on himself.

Summer 1941: Hitler invades the Soviet Union. Convoys of cargo ships with war materials began the perilous journey to Murmansk, and ordinary sailors face the German superiority in the icy Arctic sea, putting their lives at stake.