On an early January morning in 1977, a Toronto police officer vanishes from his patrol car, setting off a massive police investigation. Within days, a distraught mother places a call to her former husband in Norway. Soon after, Gunnar Eriksen, recently retired from Norwegian counter intelligence and a WW II veteran, trained at a secret camp near Toronto, arrives in the city.

In a desperate search for his missing and estranged son, Eriksen gets assistance or crosses swords with a former stripper, a politician, veterans from his war and Vietnam, biker gangs, reporters, an ex-wife and a determined and very focused Toronto police inspector.