Friends on a Mission: The Amber Room

Twelve-year-old Niels lives with his dad and his sister in a little town on the West coast of Denmark. Niels becomes both sad and angry when his school principal announces that the local school is to be closed and demolished. Not only does the school serve as a gathering point for the town's children, who will now be distributed around to other schools, but furthermore Niels’ dad will lose his job as a history teacher at the school. Now Niels, his big sister Nanna and their dad will be forced to move far away from the town. The school is closing because a new motorway is being built through the area. The only thing that can save the school is to lay the motorway across land that belongs to an elderly estate owner. However, the estate owner will not corroborate and the small town municipality cannot afford to buy him out. Niels is not willing to accept defeat and, together with his best friends, Tania and Charly, seeks out the estate owner in pure child-like faith to find a solution, but the owner arrogantly rejects young and naïve Niels. But then Niels overhears a conversation between the estate owner and his two sons, and he begins to understand that something shady and noteworthy is going on at the estate: the owner is secretly excavating the manor’s basement. It turns out that the estate owner is on the trail of the "Amber Room" – a priceless treasure that the Germans stole from the Catherine Palace near Leningrad in 1941 during World War II, which has never been seen since. It has an estimated value of over USD 500 million. Niels knows immediately what to do – if he and his friends find the treasure first, they can save the school and Niels could stay in the town. Full of renewed hope, they sneak into the manor’s basement, where they discover that the excavation leads into a gigantic and previously unknown bunker system. A bunker system built by the Germans during the war, when the estate was used as a headquarters by the SS. Niels realizes the "Amber Room" must be hidden deep inside the old bunker. And so begins the treasure hunt and the adventure for the group that consists of Niels, Tania and Charly and Niels’ sixteen-year-old responsible big sister, Nanna, and her two friends, Johannes and Louise. But in their search for the "Amber Room" in the bunker, their friendships are put to the test. In addition to the abandoned German war loot, the bunker hides traps, and the estate owner is revealed to be the son of a Danish woman and the German SS officer who commanded the estates during the war – and he will stop at nothing to prevent the children from obtaining the priceless treasure.