Susanne Lene Gurtler is the teenage girl who is raped by a lecherous silversmith Erick Wedersoe when she visits the man on a business errand. She becomes pregnant but does not tell her parents, who are about to celebrate their silver anniversary. Susanne plans to pass the baby off as the child of a male schoolmate before her girlfriend shames her into changing her plans. The title refers to the dances that the girl has with her assailant before her attack and with her mother at the anniversary celebration.