Taking place on a small villa road The two neighbors Gormsen and Sandelund have been at a dispute for years and this evolves into an all out war Sandelund is a wholesale dealer in meet a capitalist and has one of this modem houses with a flat roof Gormsen is a dentist and a communist he has a new wife that are younger then his son and lives in one of these oldfashioned halftimbered houses A third factor is the merchant Krause To begin with he is a small time grocer and progresses into the end a big time businessman He is a deeply religious man a good Christian and member of the parochial church council There children teenagers find their conflict silly and stupid
