Midwife Ella and her staff fight a daily battle to provide the best possible care for expectant mothers and newborns despite understaffing. At the same time, she is doing everything she can to keep her feelings for a married paediatrician at bay.

In 1940, a Danish industrialist, cooperates with and profits from the German occupation of Denmark, while his family find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

At 63 years old, author Karen Blixen is a lonely literary sensation until she meets talented 30-year-old poet Thorkild Bjørnvig. She promises him stardom if he will obey her unconditionally.