The story of a mother and daughter relationship in a North Sea port city. The mother is married to a local fisherman, but now comes on as a slut. She cannot forget that once she was a big city beauty queen. The daughter loves her mother although abused by her. She hates her job at the fish-processing plant. One day too cops a beauty prize and runs off. Soon she returns, sadder but wiser.
Anne Jerslev: Det åbne og det lukkede - spor i Linda Wendels film. Kosmorama 191/1990.
Kaare Schmidt: Produktionen af Lykken er en underlig fisk. Kosmorama 191/1990.
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