Danish adaptation of Pulman's 1959 dramatic debut about young Harvey Green (Baard Owe), whose life has reached a baffling crossroads. At seventeen, with his schooling over and his future uncertain, he lives with his widower father (Gunnar Lemvigh) and sister (Annegrethe Nissen) in a crumbling, characterless part of London which has nothing to offer save despair. With his father contemplating a second marriage and trying to steer him into some kind of secure employment, Harvey's dreams seem remote and beyond fulfillment.