Close to Elverhøj lives the superstitious farmer's wife Karen with her daughter Agnete. Agnete and knight Ebbesen love each other, but to their great sorrow, Ebbesen is promised away to the noble-born Elisabeth Munk. But not everything is as it seems. For Karen is not Agnete's real mother at all. She found her as an infant at Elverhøj the same night that the infant Elisabeth Munk, goddaughter of King Christian the 4th, disappeared from her parents. King Christian arrives in the area where his goddaughter's wedding is to take place and - like another detective - he begins to sort out the threads.