When a female police commissioner who has ambitions on behalf of her gender selects detective Ingrid Dahl as the new head of a Danish police travel unit, it does not come without problems for the young detective. She struggles to unite career and family, and she has to establish a cooperation with a team of detectives including the man who had expected to take her job. However,...
Set in the midsummer of 1932, the broker August Molin and his Swedish born wife Alma arrive at the beach hotel. They arrive directly from the Klitgaarden in Skagen, where the king, Christian X, spends the summer. Morten returns from Copenhagen, where he and merchant Madsen are building houses together.
It's the summer of 1929. The guests from Copenhagen are back at Andersen's seaside hotel by the North Sea, ready to be pampered by the kind, local maids and the exquisite food from Mrs Andersen's kitchen. Merchant Madsen's eldest daughter Amanda is also on her way from her travels overseas - this has been arranged by her parents in order to get her away from an unfortunate roma...
It is summer once again, and Mrs Andersen and the girls are opening the hotel for a new season. The year is 1930 and the World War is lurking outside the country boarders. But it is quite different matters, which preoccupy the guests. Merchant Madsen is fighting to recover his position after he went bankrupt last year. Mrs Aurland is afraid her husband will discover the truth -...
Badehotellet is the story about the guests and staff at a beach hotel by the North Sea sand dunes. At the heart of the story is the lives of three young people, the chambermaid Fie, the merchant's daughter Amanda, and the local fisherman Morten. Their fates are intertwined, and their stories are about emancipating themselves from the plans other people have made on their behalf...
