The son of a Copenhagen shipowner is attacked by a gang of teenagers who want to lynch their victim. But the son of a prostitute comes to the rescue, he rescues Mathieu, and he gives him his finger as a sign of friendship... The love story of the prince and the beggar is followed by their counterparts - angels who descended to earth.

Hans Hennie Jann (1894- 1959) tried to rethink the fundamentals of human existence: the attitude towards death and the natural world, towards creativity and love, towards social inequality and technological progress. The experimental novel It Shall Come to Everyone was not completed, but the surviving chapters give an idea of the beauty of its design.