A period meodrama with touches of local Danish Wild West: in 1912, construction workers are putting down railroad tracks in a remote territory. They are disdained by the local folks, but Handsome Thorvald, their foreman, catches the fancy of Linda, the miller's young wife. The miller, a drunk and a brute, beats up Linda, then has a fit and dies. There is more violence but also a happy ending.
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