This black-and-white Norwegian film is a great rarity: a film with comic elements set in a mental ward which does not overstep the bounds of common sense or good taste.
Oslo in the 1950s. Two friends are as different as can be. The easy-going and superficial Mabel is the contrast to the caring Elise. Then a man arrives.
The film takes place in the idyllic town of Solsund. Per Haug, a temporary worker, bachelor, amateur painter and leader of the political opposition in the city council, lives there. One day he rushes home from a turbulent city council meeting and angrily paints a portrait of Mayor Abrahamsen.
Bitten and Ola seeks out the priest who married them in order to get mediated before they file for a divorce. As they recount the history of their marriage, it becomes clear that the two has differing opinions of what caused their dissension.
