Reidun Lundgren

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.

Young Petter moves together with his family from a happy life in a rural fisher's village to a rough community and school life in the city of Oslo.