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.
Poul Reichhardt
Birgitte Federspiel
Ebbe Langberg
Knud Hallest
Signi Grenness
Henning Palner
Else-Marie Juul Hansen
Emil Hass Christensen
Mimi Heinrich
Maria Garland
Kjeld Jacobsen
Michael Flach
Anne Werner Thomsen
Lily Broberg
Lili Heglund
Inge Ketti
Else Hvidhøj
Bendt Rothe
Henry Nielsen
Hugo Herrestrup
Bent Bentzen
Henry Lohmann
Ego Brønnum-Jacobsen
Børge Møller Grimstrup
Malene Schwartz