After Ingeborg Holm's husband becomes sick and dies, the family's small grocery store fails, Ingeborg becomes bankrupt, and she is forced to move to the workhouse. Her three children go to foster homes. Ingeborg simply must see them again.
widow
foster parents
run away
reunion
poverty
silent film
bankruptcy
photo
sick child
devastation
death of husband
broken heart
mother child separation
loss of home
loss of business
workhouse
grown son