Brita Nelihanka, a great arctic matriarch, loses her fight against cancer. When her renewed will and its beneficiaries are revealed at the funeral, the entire family is torn apart, and many past secrets are beginning to unfold.

Sara Poikkipää inherits her father's land back from Brita and learns that she now controls the land with Pieti and Sameli; Rouku attempts to prevent the execution of Brita's will and testament.

Sameli and Sara are determined to find the money to pay their inheritance taxes; Sameli shares risky information about his mother with Sara; Rasmus is mired in gambling debts to the powerful Stagge.

Sara's ex-husband is seeking sole custody of their son; Sameli undertakes a drug smuggling operation from Stagge; a detective from the National Bureau of Investigation arrives and reopens the case of Ville Poikkipää's death.

Pieti negotiates with the Chinese about the mines; Sameli finds out the true nature of Rouku's business; in the aftermath of the drug smuggling operation, two Wolverine members decide to stash the product in Sara's cabin.

Sameli's deadline for the taxes has expired, and Stagge is pressuring him; Sara gets bad news about the child custody proceedings, and she has a final confrontation with Rouku, whom she blames for everything.