Montage of events in the first week after the Danish liberation from German occupation in WWII: The message of freedom, scenes of jubilation at City Hall Square and people partying around Copenhagen. Politiken's editor-in-chief speaks on the newspaper's balcony. The English troops arrive with real cigarettes and are hailed in the city streets. Nazi HQ Dagmarhus is searched, and a number of Russian prisoners emerge from the cellars and into freedom. Stinger collection in Bispebjerg Bio - interrogations and collection of stingers and war profiteers. Mindelunden. Reopening of the parliament. Montgomery drives through Copenhagen.