Hemmeligheden (The Secret) is a Norwegian silent film from 1912 that is considered lost.
[1][2] The film was a drama in which a young woman from a coastal town gets to know an artist from Paris.
The young woman, Elise, leaves, and on the steamship home to Norway she throws the child overboard.
When she returns home, she marries Lieutenant Almeng.
The lieutenant first takes the matter very sternly, but when he sees how unhappy this has made Elise, he goes to the fisherman and retrieves his wife's daughter, and he promises to treat her as though she were his own child.