In Tórshavn resides the bailiff Hammershaimb, who is hard and unapproachable in his civil service, but is caring and loving as a family man.
He tries to relieve his daughter Inger's boredom by letting her travel to his new country house, Skardir, while he ponders his administrative problems.
The Faroese are aware that this institution is impoverishing them, and the leader of the public opinion campaign against it is Paul Nolsøe, with the rich farmer Hannes Klasor by his side.
Inger feels strongly attracted to the stout Faroese farmer, and gradually a friendship develops between them.
Paul imagines the Faroe Islands, with its bustling bird life, the whale hunt, and Ragni's happy face.
But neither [its screening at] the Saga Cinema, the bailiff's daughter's swim in 17th-century underwear, or a blonde and naked seal woman rising from the sea will be able to save this Norwegian film in port.
In addition, it is too clumsy and involuntarily comical in its unartistic attempt to merge a series of documentary footage from bird hunting, whaling, and weather conditions in the Faroe Islands with a historical depiction of Nólsoyar Páll (Lauritz Falk) and some other handsome Faroese rebels against the Danish trade monopoly yoke.
... For an occupational psychologist it may be of interest that this film—which Leif Sinding's spirit hovers over, although his name is not mentioned in any of the credits—is about a small people's struggle against foreign oppressors.
... Holst Jensen and Jack Fjeldstad remind one in minor roles that, after all, films have been made in Norway before.