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Elections approach in Denmark with the governing Liberal Party and the opposition Labour Party neck and neck, and stuck in the middle is Birgitte Nyborg, head of the Moderates.

Birgitte is appointed Royal Investigator and begins to hold talks with the other parties, but intrigue on all sides threatens to bring down her government before she can even put it together.

Birgitte faces her first major test as prime minister in passing a budget. Just when it looks like the bill is about to go through, two Labour MPs leave their party and refuse to vote for it, forcing Birgitte to negotiate further when she would rather be home with her family for the Christmas holiday.

The revelation of an American prisoner transport in Greenland causes scandal upon the new government's first one hundred days in office.

The government's agenda on equal opportunities in corporate business brings pressure from the media as well as the country's most powerful businessman.

An official visit by the president of a former Soviet republic makes headlines when the president demands the arrest of a prominent political activist visiting Denmark at the same time.

The discovery of illegal surveillance of the Solidarity Party brings into question the Prime Minister's friendship with the party's leader, Anne Sophie Lindenkrone, as well as her faith in her Justice Minister, Troels Haxenhaven.

While the Prime Minister tries to take a family vacation amid marital problems with her husband Philip, the publication of a tell-all memoir by the former Labour Leader puts the PM's spin doctor Kasper Juul on the edge.

Allegations of corruption in connection with military spending has consequences even for the Prime Minister's husband, who has accepted a new job as a corporate CEO which places strain on their marriage.

A year after taking office, the prime minister's approval ratings are low, her government is in internal conflict, and her marriage is hanging by a thread. As she prepares for another year in parliament, what can be saved?