Erik Eriksen, a successful pianist in New York, is back home, where he is still treated distrustfully for having not lived the life God had planned for him. Only his mother and his younger brother Jens, support him unconditionally. While home Erik falls in love with Chelnica, a woman who plays the piano at the local cinema. Trouble is that Chelnica is also Jens's fiancée, due to marry him soon...