A group of people arrive at Oslo airport. Some to welcome their loved ones, some to fly home to their families, and some who want to fly away and escape Christmas. But in one way or another, their Christmas mission goes awry. They are all stranded at the airport and the clock is ticking… only 24 hours til Christmas - so what do they do?
At the first episode, there is a small dog in a cage that was left behind or forgotten. There are many discussions about taking the dog to the pound since no one is claiming it, but an airport bagger takes care of it until the people are coming to collect it. It seems like it will go badly for the dog, but the airport bagger ends up adopting the dog and takes it home. The dog has a very happy ending and the guy is very sweet and takes good care if it, he even buys it a sweater before he decides to keep it so it will not be cold.
In the S01 EP03 one of the main characters, a singer, has a major freak out at her assistant in a store at the airport. She is very upset and believes the assistant is working with another singer behind her back, even though that turns out to not be true.
One of the main characters is addicted to prescription sleeping pills and gets very upset when a security guard tries to take them away from her. She gets to keep them in the end.
One of the main characters, a server has cancer. He ends up in the hospital, but in the end is reunited with his daughter a the hospital and seems very happy.