The story of a working man, who's got a gorgeous fiancée but who falls for a rich older woman – who turns out to be a femme fatale.
In beautiful Telemark, a young boy grows up on a rich farm. To his fathers dislike, he wants to be a fiddle player, just like the son at the poorer neighboring farm. One day the father is found dead.
Widowed Gunhild has two daughters, and one of them, Ragnhild has fallen in love with poor boy Asmund, to her mother's dislike.