Para la joven Carolina Matilde (Alicia Vikander), casada siendo una adolescente con el rey de Dinamarca Christian VII, es un horror vivir con un marido ciclotímico y estrafalario que propone medidas como nombrar a su perro miembro honorario del Consejo de Estado, o que circulen en Copenhague por la noche carruajes vacíos para recoger a los borrachos. Así las cosas, Carolina se rinde a los encantos del médico personal del rey, un intelectual progresista (Mads Mikkelsen) que se verá dividido entre su lealtad al rey, su amor a la reina y su oportunidad de convertir una Dinamarca aún medieval en un país ilustrado.
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The sore and tender hearts of a young couple with a toddler are explored in this drama. The little girl, four years old, is not aware that she is doing anything distressing while she ambles about the house on the day after a post-examination celebration by her father, a university student. Even though hung over, he tries hard to be patient with her. The beginning of the story follows her on her little adventures. The girl comes down with a fever, which kills her before anything can be done, and the student and his photographer wife mourn and comfort one another. Little encounters with children cause the mother pain she is seldom free of, until she gives birth to their next child, a son.
