Ingeborg Skov

Anders returns to Denmark to visit his ill mom too late. Her lawyer tells him he's the illegitimate child of an estate owner. He goes there incognito and works on the big farm and falls for the maid and later for a gold digger.

The young, hard-working, and extremely attractive Eva Brun works as secretary to Director Jansen. But when her boss becomes a little too fond of Eva's "work," she quits. Tired of men and tired of lecherous male bosses, she devises a cunning plan. She wants to get married and divorced as quickly as possible so she can live off alimony. And Eva chooses shipowner's son Hans P. Larsen as her victim. But Hans has his own agenda. And soon the two begin a cunning game, the outcome of which only Cupid's arrows know.

Copenhagen in the 1890s. A pleasant city for those who experienced it at the time. This is the story of how Therese Schrøder came to live with Professor Jacobsen and became the children's nanny, which led to her meeting her sailor. This caused quite a stir in bourgeois circles at the time.

A very respectable married couple, dentist Rudolf Thomsen and Helene, his sweet and quiet wife. He is deeply absorbed in his dental work and expects to be rewarded for his diligence with a prestigious position at a clinic in Amsterdam. Incidentally, he is quite fussy about his health and systematically avoids anything that might add color to his life.