A stranger knocks on the the door of a widow who's husband was tortured and killed by the Danish Nazis during World War Two. They fall in love, but then, suddenly, she realizes that her lover is the man who murdered her husband.

A stranger - a fugitive, a sought-after - walks through a deserted landscape a late rainy day in August 1947. He reaches the sea, walks along the beach, the waves scream. He is lost. As it's getting dark he finds shelter in a lonely cottage where a mysterious woman lives alone.—Ulf Kjell Gür