在上个世纪七十年代末期，聪明但缺乏经验的伊瑞克决心要成为一名导演，他幸运地获得丹麦国家电影学院的入学许可，费尽心机与情绪不稳定的指导教授及行事缺乏逻辑的怪胎同学奋战，努力往导演之路前进。

A seemingly trivial case of a small carpentry business that has gone bankrupt under mysterious circumstances gets Mads' attention. Claudia is released after one and a half years in prison but her son is in Paris and the …