"Humanity is a choice."
When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees — or stand firm in the Danish resistance against the Germans?
Jakob

Søren

Lis

Birk

Heinrich

Lauritz

Gisela
Kommandant Hertzog

Pastor Eriksen

Enkefru Andersen

Frau von Wenk

Johanne
Palle
Bjørn
Åge

Dr. Nielsen

Tysk officer

Erna Nielsen

Overlæge

Hr. Madsen
Mogens

Laura
Frida
Hermann
Poul
Magnus
Magnus' mor
Otto
Tysk soldat 1
Tysk soldat 2
Tysk soldat 3

Moderen
Kvinde 1
Kvinde 3
Sygeplejerske

Kvinde ved opgang

Ung modstandsmand

Karl
Dreng 1
Modstandsmand 1
Modstandsmand 2