Maria grows up in a seedy 1960s working class neighborhood, the daughter of an ambitious emigrant father and soon caught up in her own dangerously one track-minded pursuit of a violinist's career. A rich gallery of highly original characters contribute, for better and for worse, to Maria's coming of age. Based on Kirsten Thorup's critically acclaimed 1982 novel, filmed by Morten Arnfred.

• Sandrew Metronome Danmark
• Ole Lemmeke
• Karina Skands
• Erik Mørk
• Harriet Andersson
• Waage Sandø
• Peter Schrøder
• Anne Marie Helger
• Vibeke Hastrup