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5 Episodes 2021 - 2021
Episode 1
The summer of 1941. The German occupying power has commandeered the neighbouring hotel but that does certainly not keep the regular guests away. As Edward Weyse says: If we just pretend they are not there, then they are not there. The popular actor is otherwise writing his memoirs, Merchant Madsen is keen to rediscover the joys of eroticism, all the while Mrs. Frigh has completely repressed the fact that a marriage swindler tricked her of a fortune last summer. Everything looks promising but then a Communist scene painter, two German soldiers with binoculars and an orthopaedic surgeon from Gentofte turn everything upside down.

Episode 2
Lieutenant Kiessling once more shows himself as Amanda's helper when he gets the German barricade moved down the beach. However, he has a small request in return. When Weyse doesn't seem to get any further with his memoirs, because his wife is stuck in Copenhagen with the wanted scene painter Svend Damm, a bold plan to get rid of the freeloader is born. But will it work? Mrs. Frigh is in shock after the sight of the swindler from last summer and most of all wants to forget it all but then her active daughter takes action. In the middle of all this, Merchant Madsen suddenly gets involved in the fate of a young German soldier.

Episode 3
Actor Weyse has finally found just the right person to write his memoirs, his ex-wife Fanny Fjord, who also is a well-known journalist. However, sometimes you get more help than you asked for. Amanda tries to keep the Wehrmacht at the neighbouring hotel at a distance, but when her father once again helps the young German soldier Stefan with forbidden letters to his Jewish girlfriend, it gets more than complicated. And then Mrs. Frigh tries to deny that the charming Emil Høyer makes an impression on her, while her daughter Bertha is called on for an entirely new adventure.

Episode 4
Merchant Madsen feels complicit in the young German soldiers' desertion, but it won't be the last time their paths meet. In an attempt to repress the fact that his wife is on the run with the Communist theatre painter Svend Damm, actor Weyse throws himself energetically over his memoirs, but when the police come knocking on his door everything changes. At the same time, Madsen's faithful companion August Molin arrives with daunting plans of desertion, while a small present from the German Lieutenant Kiessling suddenly makes Amanda lie to the entire hotel.

Episode 5
When a detached German sea mine is washed ashore right down from the hotel, it becomes the beginning of a dramatic end to the guests' holiday. But by then, the young German soldier Stefan is to be put in front of a court-martial, Mrs. Frigh needs to find out what happened to the charming fraud Emil Høyer, and actor Weyse will fall subject to an unreasonable accusation of having taken a political stand. In the meantime, Amanda once more gets the need of Lieutenant Kiessling, while Merchant Madsen's relationship with the occupying power is put to a conclusive test.
