We are among the new stallholders in Krokodilgade itself, at the head of the prison, Martinus Petersen, who is in the middle of a showdown with his slightly sour wife, Petræa, caused by the fact that the couple's daughter, Lilly, has chosen the slanted boards of the stage as her life's path and right now this summer must be a prima donna at a summer theater in a small provincial town.