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
as Frank Jensen
Birgitte Federspiel
as Sonia Hardenborg
Ebbe Langberg
as Flemming Hardenborg
Knud Hallest
as Adolph Rytting
Signi Grenness
as Agnes Rytting
Henning Palner
as Baron Torben
Else-Marie Juul Hansen
as Jordemoder Willumsen
Emil Hass Christensen
as
Mimi Heinrich
as
Maria Garland
as
Kjeld Jacobsen
as
Michael Flach
as
