The first instalment centers on two chimney sweepers in Oslo who are close friends and often perch on rooftops, offering reflective high-up city views. One man, Jan Gunnar Rise, admits to his friend that he recently had sex with another man out of curiosity, enjoyed it, and does not consider himself gay. The other man, Thorbjrn Harr, a committed Christian family man, experiences recurring dreams of a beautiful being that responds to his feminine side. Rise tells his wife and deeply upsets her; Harr's wife regards his dream as spiritual, saying God and love go beyond gender. Harr joins a Christian drama-dance wearing a homemade red outfit that hints at non-traditional masculinity.
But the job still appears to involve a certain amount of perching on rooftops; perhaps Haugerud has chosen this so that he can get plenty of reflective high-up views of the city, rooted in dramatic reality, and which aren't just hackneyed drone shots. They are close friends, and in an idle moment of chat, one of them (Jan Gunnar Rise) confesses to the other (Thorbjrn Harr) that recently, out of sheer curiosity, he had sex with another man.
His fellow sweep, a committed Christian and heterosexual family man, has also had a self-questioning experience: a recurring dream in which a beautiful being, like David Bowie, responds to the female side of him. The problem now for Rise's character is that, because he is so convinced that his adventure means nothing to his marriage, he recounts it at once to his wife; in his view, it isn't even a confession, though his wife (Siri Forberg) is deeply upset.
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