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Maria (Karina Skands) is an 18-year-old late bloomer who has for years been a gifted violinist. She lives in the slums of Copenhagen and has led a sheltered life often marked by poverty and cruelty. Due to her consuming musical passions -- fueled by the expectations of her overprotective father -- the beautiful Maria is unaware of her own attractiveness. She feels the first stirrings of love with Jonny (Ole Lemmeke), but she leaves him when he turns out to be a repressed homosexual.