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.
The movie is based on the narrative of a Czech multimillionaire who achieved success not by stripping companies, making crooked deals and crony-ism, but by blazing his own trail like Schweikesque self-made man. He realizes early on that he has nobody but himself to rely on. During the totalitarian regime of the 80s, he ambles along his oddball path and then experiences the Velvet Revolution atypically, too - in an asylum amidst nut-cases. After the Revolution, he really gets rolling. To Germany and back. To prison and back. To China and back. The intriguing and endless opportunities afforded by the Internet eventually blossom into virtual prosperity. The hero has everything and is even planning a highly unorthodox family. A happy ending is nigh, until everything goes up in smoke, of course...
