Bound by their all-consuming desire, a young circus tightrope walker and a lieutenant forsake everything to be together and escape to the countryside—only to see their lovers’ idyll gradually give way to poverty and desperation.

• Europa Film
• Pia Degermark
• Thommy Berggren
• Lennart Malmer
• Cleo Jensen
• Nina Widerberg
• Yvonne Ingdal