"Everyone had the right to happiness. Or didn't they?"
1934: The island of Bornholm becomes a place of refuge from the Nazi regime. Hans Henny Jahnn, writer, organ builder and horse breeder, runs the Bondegaard estate with his wife Elli, his sister-in-law Sibyl and their children. In 1935, he also brings Judit, a Hungarian Jewish photographer, there: ‘She will stay with us from today. Live with us.’
The three women seek a way to stand their ground, amid jealousy and solidarity, in the face of the peculiar fascination that the uninhibited man at their center commands. However, when war reaches the island, everything is at stake for this community of fate in exile.
