Malte Moddy returns from a holiday in South Africa. He is not aware that he has contracted malaria. His condition results in extended sick leave from his security position at Western Norwegian Oil. Sick and unemployed, Malte withdraws from life until his brother, Jon-Berg, insists that he spend Christmas with him, his wife Karin and their two children in Lofoten, Norway. His stay rekindles an old interest in his family's genealogy, and the stories passed down through the generations. While attending a local genealogical society meeting, he learned that, through DNA testing, it was possible to find relatives back in time, actually thousands of years back in time, if you were lucky to find other matches. What he discovers is a shared Viking ancestry with a Russian Mafia boss (Sergei Shargunov), and an elderly winemaker and his daughter (Rostislav Korolev and Elizaveta Koroleva) in Ukraine. Malte is entangled in a dangerous race for possession of a rare Viking Legacy, one of four that Harald "Hardrada" Sigurdsson looted from the Byzantine Empire in 1042 AD.