Svenn Jacobsen

One morning, 6-year-old Zora discovers that there is a dead body under the living room table in the apartment where she lives with her mother.

We meet the young violinist Øyvind Dahl at a time when everything has weighed him down and he is completely desperate for alcohol. He has left his wife and children and has teamed up with emaciated artists and suspicious individuals, and obtains his daily liquor by mortgaging his last possessions, even the wedding ring, and by pitifully barring money.