​ In post-World War 1 Copenhagen, Karoline, her husband missing in action, struggles to make ends meet working in a linen factory.  After falling pregnant by the factory owner, she seeks help from a woman to have her baby adopted.  What starts as a film about the aftermath of post-war living, develops into something else entirely: a Dickensian portrait of a world that is closer to ours than we may think. Stunningly photographed in high contrast black and white.