Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.

Synnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain, often looks wistfully up to Solbakken. As teenagers they meet and fall in love. Another boy, Knud Nordhaug, is also yearning for Synnöve.

Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.