A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal characters in the film are two fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, Carl and Hanne. Covering a hundred-year period and drawing on case stories recorded by actual hospital staff, the film illustrates a number of variations of "the same old story."

• Statens Filmcentral
• Minerva Film
• Carl Quist Møller
• Susse Brodersen
• Lone Lindorff
• Leif Sylvester
• Hannah Bjarnhof
• Helle Ryslinge
• Peter Østed
• Esben Høilund Carlsen