Otto Thostrup passes his first university examination in Copenhagen and enters student life with friends, theatre boxes and invitations to country manors. Behind his reserve lies a secret bound up with the two initials of the title and with people from his childhood he would rather not meet again. Andersen draws on his own observation of Danish society, from salons to rural fairs.
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