Stock market tycoon Tietgen's project to connect Europe and the Far East with telegraph cables is suddenly threatened and bank director Isak Glückstadt uses the opportunity to rival Tietgen's long-standing dominance in the financial world.
Frihavnen is once again deserted and looks like a total failure for Isak Glückstadt, until Captain H.N. Andersen comes home after a life as an entrepreneur in Bangkok with visionary dreams of a new steamship fleet based in Frihavnen.
After Isak's death, his son Emil takes over. Under Emil's leadership, Landmandsbanken grows into Scandinavia's largest business. But Emil one day sets himself up against his old patron H.N. Andersen.
