When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays, he starts feeling increasingly rejected and jealous, as his adolescent daughter starts looking for real beaus.
As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.
Adaptation of the classic Danish Christmas story about Nikolaj, a student, and his two older brothers, who are spending their vacation with the kind pastor's family in Nøddebo. Nikolaj is very interested in the pastor's daughters, Emmy and Andrea Margrethe, but it is his brothers who end up getting engaged to the girls.
