For her first individual directorial work after AFSPORET, Bodil Ipsen shifted genre from film noir to satirical comedy, although serious, socially critical undertones can be made out here too, with her talent for depicting mysterious, ambivalent situations continuing unabated. One day, an unknown man in top hat and tails turns up on the main square of a city wanting to make an urgent call from a public telephone. This sets in motion numerous entertaining complications.
