A famous painter provokes outrage on Samsø as he puts up a four meter high cross on a field, and then paints a naked girl on the cross. And speaking of the Christian symbol, there are marital problems in the parsonage. When a museum director comes to interview the painter, he finds the artist murdered. The case seems clear from the start - it must be the painter's young female model who has become jealous and has led the knife. But It turns out that he lived a double life and that others also had reason for jealousy.