SYNOPSIS: Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen) is an idealistic man working in an orphanage in India. Always in desperate need of funds the orphanage calls on Jacob to meet a large potential benefactor, Jørgen (Rolf Lassgård), a Danish businessman. He imposes a condition on Jacob: He must come home to Denmark to sign their contract.

Jacob’s arrival in Denmark coincides with the wedding of Jørgen’s daughter and Jacob is invited to join the festivities. There he discovers that the mother of the bride (his benefactor’s wife) is in fact the love of his youth, Helene (Sidse Babett Knudsen). The wedding becomes a landmark meeting of the past and the future and puts Jacob in the dilemma of his life.

Now Showing in Australia.

To be released January 24, 2008 in New Zealand.