The lives of Erik and Anna, students at a nursing school in 1950s Denmark, a time and place where it was not normal for a man to become a nurse.
A Danish hospital in the 1950s embarks on a radical experiment: training men a nurses.
The male students face expulsion for carelessly cleaning equipment.
Erik volunteers in the polio ward as Anna uncovers a patient's embarrassing secret.
Susanne and Anna are at odds over how to treat a burn patient.
Susanne realizes she might have to leave the program and Erik ends up treating his own father.
Erik feels like a misfit as the probationary period comes to an end.
