A portrait of the great Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844). Dreyer uses close-ups of Thorvaldsen's reliefs and sculptures and lingers on the essential details of human anatomy.
The train from Jutland arrives at Copenhagen Central Station and we follow a married couple visiting the sites in Copenhagen: Lurblæserne, City Hall and City Hall Square, Glyptoteket, Politigården, ...