Passengers on a cruise ship are forced to come to terms with their inevitable doom. The female captain looks for the right words, and a group of children wants to do something nice for an animal that has died.
Early spring 1951. Søren has dissapeared from his own engagement celebration. His fiancée finds him pale and gloomy, sitting on a jetty. She confronts him with his constant absence. In return she gets to witness Søren revealing a most fatal secret.