Kaj Gram Larsen

ある夜、市内の公園で二つの事件が同時に起きた。ひとつは中年女性が暴漢に襲われ店の売り上げを奪われた事件、もうひとつはまだ幼い少女が暴行された上に殺された事件だった。だが少女殺しの手掛かりはまったく無いまま第二の犠牲者が出てしまう。焦るベックは中年女性を襲った犯人が少女殺しを目撃しているのではないかと推測、折しも市内に潜伏していると見られた脱走犯がその暴漢である事が判明する。銃撃戦の果てに逮捕された脱走犯の証言によって少女殺しのモンタージュが作られ、警官を総動員した聞き込み捜査が開始されるのだが……。

In the village Karrild, the Countess Sonia Hardenborg and a young unmarried woman, Marta, give birth to a daughter on the same day. Marta dies after birth, so Marta's daughter, Betina, come under the care of the countess. 17 years later, Betina and Countess Sonia's daughter, Maria, meet, as Betina is living in a home for orphaned girls, which is adjacent to the Hardenborg estate. The two girls become friends, and Maria invites Betina to visit her at Hardenborg, to greet her parents Sonia and Otto Hardenborg and her brother Count Flemming. Meanwhile, Betina's father, Frank Jensen, starts working in the estate's woods, and when the two girls come to visit him, he is shocked by the resemblance between the young countess and Betina's mother Marta.

The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself. When Mikkel's wife, Inger goes into a difficult childbirth, everyone's beliefs are put to the test.