Forester Antti Kare and manager John Freyberg travel north in search of millions worth of timber sales. The manager's giddy daughter Margit also secretly joins the journey.
In Waldemar Wohlström's silent drama Kahden tanssin välillä (1930), forester Antti Kare signs an employment contract with manager John Freyberg. Unbeknownst to each other, Kare and Freyberg travel north in search of millions worth of timber sales. The manager's giddy daughter Margit, who has her eye on the manly forester, also secretly joins the journey.
Antti Kare, a forester from the north, attends the last masquerade of the season and catches sight of beauty with a birthmark on her arm. Antti takes her to the dance and is then beside himself. The next day, he signs a contract with the manager Freyberg, which will start in two months, and Freyberg invites him to breakfast at his place. During the meal, Antti meets Freyberg's daughter Margit and, without recognizing her as the beauty from the night before, tells her of his 'adventures in the great mysteries'. Now Margit in turn is beside herself. At the beach, Antti again catches a glimpse of a woman with a birthmark, watches Margit's merriment in the casino, and overhears her on the beach, aware of Antti's presence, telling her companion that she has fallen in love with a "wild and untamed" man.
In the north, the master of the Yli-Iim has decided to sell his forest to raise money to dry the Great-swamp. Matti Seipin, who is dating the daughter of Yli-Iim's daughter Emmi, informs Antti about the matter. At the same time, Freyberg's boss Männistö alerts his manager, who leaves in his car for the north, taking Margit with him. However, she decides to travel on her own and takes the same train as him. When they arrive in Kirsilä, they all stay in the same cabin.
Männistö has started plotting and enlists the help of idle log workers, who lure Matti to the forest sauna in Kirsijärvi and trap her inside. Männistö himself leads Antti into the same trap. Margit, aware of the situation, finds out about Männistö's plot and guides herself to the forest sauna, where Antti and Matti have broken out and are currently in a fight with log workers. Without showing herself, Margit leaves word through her guide that Antti must hurry immediately to Yli-Iim. Antti and Matti decide to cross the Great-swamp with their lives, which shortens the distance by three leagues.
While crossing the swamp, Matti sprains his ankle and Antti has to carry him on his back. Meanwhile, Männistö is driven by Freyberg's driver towards the same destination and reaches his destination first, despite the car getting stuck in a pothole, driving into a ditch and blowing a tire. When Antti arrives at Yli-Iim's master's chamber, the deed has already been signed. Matti remains in the care of Emmi, a jubilant Männistö delivers the paper to Freyberg, who cancels his contract with Antti after hearing of his share as a rival buyer.
Margit returns to Helsinki with her father but soon invites Antti to join her on the pretext that 'the final account has not yet been settled and the forest deal is still pending'. Margit arranges for Antti to meet his father, whom he calls at the same time, hoping for 'sympathy for his fiance'. "Don't spoil this forest deal with an adventure," Freyberg mutters after the misunderstandings have been cleared up. At the first masquerade of the autumn season, Antti again follows a woman with a birthmark and removes the mask from Margaret's face, saying he had guessed it from the start: 'The first time it was a joke, now it's true.' Margit removes her "birthmark" and they laugh happily and dance their way through the masked crowd.
