Based upon true events and the novel by Gabriel Scott about terrible conditions in a foster family.

Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than she ran into August Strindberg. They had a brief affair but after a couple of weeks Dagny left him for Stanisław Przybyszewski.

Marion is born limp and with a scarred face. Georg is also limp after a car accident. it takes more than a man to go together.