第二次世界大战.1945年3月21日，英国皇家空军开始执行轰炸哥本哈根盖世太保总部的任务。这次袭击造成了致命的后果，因为一些轰炸机意外袭击了一所学校，造成120多人丧生，其中86人是儿童。几名哥本哈根居民的命运因此交织在了一起。本片改编自真实事件。

一部于 1978 年至 1982 年间制作并播出的丹麦电视剧。故事发生在 1929 年至 1947 年间虚构的丹麦小镇科尔斯拜克。它讲述了来自不同社会阶层的一系列人物的生活，特别关注家庭之间的竞争两位商人的故事：银行家汉斯·克里斯蒂安·瓦纳斯 (Hans Christian Varnæs)，一位在当地颇有名望的人；以及社会攀登者麦兹 (安徒生)·斯克杰恩，他在剧集开场时来到小镇。

Matador is a Danish TV series produced and shown between 1978 and 1982. It is set in the fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947. It follows the lives of a range of characters from across the social spectrum, focusing specifically on the rivalry between the families of two businessmen: The banker Hans Christian Varnæs, an established local worthy, and social climber Mads Skjern, who arrives in town as the series opens. The name Matador was taken from the localised edition of the boardgame Monopoly, also the series' tentative English title. In addition, in contemporary Danish a "matador" is often used to describe a business tycoon, in the series referring to the character of Mads Skjern and his craftiness as a self-made entrepreneur.

Directed by famed Danish film maker Erik Balling, Matador was the idea of author Lise Nørgaard who wrote the bulk of the episodes alongside Karen Smith, Jens Louis Petersen and Paul Hammerich. The series is one of the most well-known and popular examples of Danish television and represents the peak of longtime development of Danish TV drama by the public service channel Danmarks Radio.

The series has become part of the modern self-understanding of Danes, partly because of its successful mix of melodrama and a distinct warm Danish humour in the depiction of characters, which were portrayed by a wide range of the most popular Danish actors at the time; but also not least because of its accurate portrayal of a turbulent Denmark from around the start of the Great Depression and through Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark in World War II.

For Janus his friend Tore is his big ideal: pretty, intelligent and self-confident. Janus is grateful for his friendship even though he is considered the court jester. When Tore falls in love with the beautiful and sweet girl Helle, Janus accepts his role as their highly loved third party. Helle's fashionable mother, however, is a bit too interested in Tore. Written by Allan Simonsen