牧师安德里听从旅馆服务生尤根的建议，参加了当地夜校开办的意大利语课程，认识了班上一位在蛋糕店工作的叫奥利皮娅的女孩，两人互相之间产生了好感。女孩原本跟父亲同住，不久后父亲过世了，刚办完父亲的丧事，她就接到奇怪的通知，要她出席从未谋面的母亲的丧礼。
在丧礼上，女孩发现镇上的女理发师凯伦原来就是她失散多年的亲姐姐。凯伦当初照顾酒精中毒的母亲，累得心力交瘁，母亲死后，她开始和一位性格火爆的餐厅经理谈起了恋爱。被餐馆开除后，这个餐厅经理转行开始做意大利语培训班的老师，而从前在饭馆当他助理的吉尤拉立即报了他的意大利语班，因为她喜欢上了尤根，想与他交往。这个培训班对这些毫无安全感的，寂寞的单身男女来说就是恋爱的圣经课。

When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until he discovers that young Jønne has taken some semi-nude photos of Mette and clearly is intending to go further in their relationship. Suddenly the father starts hanging out with Mette and her friends as they practice winter sports together - and there is hardly anything stranger, or more embarrassing, as far as Mette is concerned. It is clear that father and daughter are heading toward a change in their relationship as both have to adjust to her "growing up."

Benny and Arnold are homeless and along with others living on Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The police is set to clear the building they squat in, but on the night of the forced eviction, local acid head Spacy jumps from the sixth floor.