The film takes place over a day for two young people's lives. There they meet each other and the a number of people in the streets, each in their own way in a quiet humdrum tone tells about the need to be present. The film is simultaneously both a tribute to the city of Copenhagen and life in general.

When Miss Jørgensen drops dead in small-town church, a simple-minded churchwarden and a faithless priest fulfil her last wish - being burned and burried at the top of a hill at sunset.