In beautiful Telemark, a young boy grows up on a rich farm. To his fathers dislike, he wants to be a fiddle player, just like the son at the poorer neighboring farm. One day the father is found dead.

Aasmund Venaas, fiddler

Gutorm Øverland

Ingerid, Aasmund's wife

Torgrim, as a child

Torgrim, as an adult

Halvor, a service boy

Hege, milkmaid

Gunnlaug, Guttorm's sister

Kari, Gunlaug's daughter as a child

Kari, as an adult