[5] In November 1942 in occupied Norway, a group of Jewish refugee children are in danger, and a young doctor tries to save them from the Germans.
The real rescue operation was led by the German-Russian child psychologist Nina Hasvoll and the Norwegian Sigrid Helliesen Lund when the children at the Jewish orphanage in Oslo were smuggled into Sweden in the fall of 1942, thus escaping the Holocaust.
Two other important roles are played by Lalla Carlsen as Maren the housekeeper and Joachim Holst-Jensen as a composer and the young doctor's uncle.
The director, Sigval Maartmann-Moe, had himself experienced SS men at uncomfortably close range, and he believed that Germans were needed to portray this type.
He was able to "borrow" Günther Hüttmann and Ottakar Panning from the German theater and, according to Maartmann-Moe, this German–Norwegian collaboration worked perfectly.