Peer Gynt is a powerful farm boy who tries to steal himself from his poor reality with made up stories. He suppresses the fact that his father Jon Gynt, once a respected man in the village and the surrounding area, threatens to lose his farm and property through mismanagement and excessive alcohol. In Peer's imagination, the rundown house is still a grand palace. Peer also knows how to suppress the fact that he himself is a no-no. He sees himself as a hero and knows how to make his mother Aase believe what a "devil" he is.