At the beginning of World War II, when the Germans invade Denmark in 1940, the Danish ambassador to America declares himself to be the only true representative of the free Danish people.

Period drama centering on the life of diplomat Henrik Kauffmann, who was the Danish ambassador posted to Washington in 1939. When World War II started and the Germans occupied Denmark on April 9, 1940, Kauffmann declared himself to be the only true representative of the free Danish people in opposition to the Germans.