The year is 1814, and Aslak Broch has just turned eighteen when representatives from the army come to the farm and demand that he report for duty. His parents oppose their son’s desire to go. They have sacrificed too much to let him die fighting for a Danish king.

Aslak has been waiting for such an opportunity all his life. He defies his parents, and for the first time he gets to know boys his own age. At home on the farm, his parents have to deal with the fear that their son will die.

A Girl Child is the story of the brotherhood between three young men at war, and two parents who are left alone with the guilt of the sin they committed to keep their son alive.