A movie based of a book, follows a young girl named Ester, and her family and friends as poor danish citizens, in a rough area of Copenhagen in the 1930's.
Henriette is a fiercely independent nurse with the knack of solving all her friends problems, without being able to cope with her own. Lonely and single, she conceals a soft centre beneath ...
Henrik and Jacob have just finished high school, but they can't get into university, so Jacob gets a job as a waiter and Henrik helps his uncle clear out a rich man's villa after the owner ...