Under the city's roofs, life goes on in a motley manner. It alternates with tears and smiles, with happiness and sadness. In the artist restaurant "Mona Bar" in the inner city, the former model Mona Frank acts as the goddess of artists. She helps with both money and heartache. Among the many artists, Niels Brandemose has his own face. He has recently come to the city to attend the Academy, and his whole desire and desire is to become a painter.
Sylvia Grøn is fired as a teacher. Instead, she teams up with her great admirer, the actor Herman Sander. Sylvia Grøn invests her savings in his traveling theater, but the theater is doing poorly. The image of Herman Sander also fades as time goes by. Sylvia's old student, Eva Kristoffersen, seeks refuge in the theater troupe. She is secretly in love with the composer Henrik Brandt. Just before the key must be turned for the theater group, Sylvia gets an idea. Henrik Brandt has written a play and she wants to stage it.
A lottery win allows the kitchen girl Hansy Hansen to lodge at an upmarket seaside hotel where the widower landowner Rosen falls in love with her. However, Rosen is in financial difficulties because of the lawyer Sadolin, who reneged on marrying his daughter. He puts everything he can into the daughter's horse to win a race.
