Knud Almar

Helga run away from home with the Italian charmer Carlo.

Jørgen wants to propose to Marie as soon as he has been promoted and can offer her a proper home. Indeed, his future looks promising until his father, who is a bookkeeper in the town bank, tells Jørgen that he has embezzled and spent money from the bank. In order to uphold his father’s honour, Jørgen must raise the missing amount, and the only one he knows with that much ready money is his uncle, the canny merchant Ole Konge, whom his father detests.

About a young woman and her tragic love story, which leads her through life as an artist in a traveling circus to the court, which sentences her.