Emma (Line Kruse) is an eleven year-old only child from a wealthy Danish family. Emma's parents seem more interested in their own interests than in her. One evening when Emma overhears her mother talking about how tragic it must be to have your child kidnapped, Emma decides to stage her own kidnapping. She soon meets Malthe, a kind-hearted, child-like, naïve sewer cleaner who literally stumbles on to her. She convinces Malthe that she is a Russian princess whose family is being chased by Bolsheviks, so Malthe lets Emma stay with him in his very modest abode. After being "kidnapped" for a few days, Emma decides to return home. But, just as she is about to return, she overhears a couple of servants talking about how her parents don't seem to be very upset over her dilemma....

At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin occurring, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. A ghostly ambulance appears and disappears, the voice of a little girl calls to a patient in an elevator shaft, and a doctor's fetus begins growing at an alarming rate.

Family drama set in the Danish countryside in the turn of the century. A wealthy landowner is an evil and corrupt womaniser with several illegitimate offspring in addition to his beautiful family. Nobody stands up to him except his feisty 17-year-old daughter.

In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules.

Alcoholic Herbert's last birthday, experienced through his increasingly deadly drunken stupor.

Per, is a petty thief who narrowly avoids arrest and is quickly abandoned by his criminal mentors. He vows revenge by using their girlfriends, but nothing goes to plan.

One summer evening, two young people meet at the strait. He is Poul and she is Anna. They try to find their rhythm, but it doesn't really work out. In the middle of their experiment, a man appears, Karl. He is suffering from unhappy love and wants to drown himself. Anna and Poul part on bad terms. Poul prevents Karl from carrying out his plan and suggests he try the harbor next time. His unhappy love is named Lykke. She is a dancer at the "Go Go Happy Night" disco, owned by the tough Steffensen.

The last part of the trilogy about the Vesterbro Root Per, which differs from "The Flight" (1973) and "Per" (1975) by being more comedy. Per has become socially adapted, he gets married and gets permanent work. In his rise live two originals, Kasper and his blind friend Holger, who are busy revealing housing fraud in the neighborhood.

A shy postman longing for a relationship is reading love letters he is supposed to deliver.