Buried Dogs (Begravde Hunder) is the sixth film in the Varg Veum series. Racial tension is running high in Bergen after a young black asylum seeker dies at the hands of the police. Shortly afterwards, a right-wing politician is targeted by a gunman at a public rally, and his wife is fatally wounded. The Party is about to hold a leadership election. One of the candidates, Marit Holm, comes to private investigator Varg Veum, insisting she is being stalked. Varg is drawn into a web of conspiracy and betrayal at the heart of the political establishment, in which spin doctors and political players will do anything to achieve their ends.

Veum is no longer working as a private investigator. He has a permanent job as a teacher; enjoying domestic calm with his new girlfriend Karin. "The Knife," a man Varg helped convict of murder, is released from prison, determined to take revenge on those who convicted him.

Karin wants her sister Siren, a prostitute, to come home to say goodbye to their terminally ill mother. Varg and Karin attract the wrong attention when they kidnap the high Siren to bring her home.