: Composer Edward Grieg meets a little girl in a forest with a basket of fir cones. By the eighteenth birthday of the forester’s daughter, he writes wonderful music that the girl hears only after the composer's death.
Composer Edward Grieg meets in the autumn forest a little girl Dagny Petersen with a basket full of fir cones. Grieg wants to give Dagny something, but he has nothing with him. Finally, the composer comes up with a gift and promises to give it to the girl in ten years. Grieg's gift is music dedicated to the eighteen-year-old daughter of forester Hagerup Petersen.
Grieg has been writing music for Dagny for over a month. No matter how rich our language is, it is impossible to convey in words the music in which the wonderful charm of girlhood is sung.
At eighteen, Dagny graduated from high school. Father sends her to visit his sister Magda. Magda serves as a theatrical dressmaker, and her husband Niels serves as a hairdresser in the same theater. Spouses live in a small room under the roof of the theater, where many theatrical things have accumulated: brocade, silk, tulle, wigs, fans. All this aunt Magda hem, mend, clean and iron. Dagny often goes to the theater. The performances impress the girl too much - she cannot fall asleep for a long time and even cries in her bed. Then Aunt Magda decides to go to the concert for a change.
On one of the white nights of warm June, Dagni first listens to symphonic music, which produces a strange effect on her, evokes a lot of paintings that look like a dream. Suddenly she starts; she thinks that the man in the tailcoat, announcing the concert program, called her name. The man repeats: “Now the famous musical play by Edward Grieg, dedicated to the daughter of forester Hagerup Pedersen Dagni Pedersen, will be performed, on the occasion of the fact that she was eighteen years old.” Dagni cries with gratitude, and music sings about her native land, calls for herself to that country where nothing can cool love.
The music subsides, clapping applause. Dagny gets up and quickly goes to the exit of the park. The girl regrets that Grieg is dead. She wants to run towards him, hug him by the neck, press her cheek wet from tears and say only one word: “Thank you!”. Her whole being embraces the "sense of beauty of this world."
