The sailor Axel Nord is asked by his captain to do him a favor before his leave begins. Captain Rundholm wants him to give a letter to his niece in Stockholm. As Nord discovers, it isn't easy to find somebody you never have met, and it isn't made easier by the fact that some crooks believe that the letter contains evidence proving embezzlement in the shipping company.
The teacher Arne Markell, who is also a well-known poet, leaves his class of students. He will marry Lena and work for a new school. One of the students, Majken, misses him sincerely.
General Consul Kristina Holm has a good relationship with her three grandchildren because they really like her, but also for the annual "traditional" financial contribution they receive.
Car manufacturer Leopold Paseman is old and childless. He becomes sentimental about his situation and has no one to take over the business when he dies.
Eva Örn is a newly graduated teacher, who becomes a school teacher in rural Vikarlunda. She is a beautiful young woman with firm opinions and she does not live up to the locals' picture of the ideal female teacher. She has an affair with the pastor, Ingvar Hagson, but they have to keep their love a secret.
At a prom ball, Peter and Helen catch each other's eyes over the children's heads. Peter is desperate to meet Helen and follows her to Mallorca, where she plans to spend her holiday with her husband.
Entre l'alcoolisme d'une star sur le déclin, la fierté d'une diva et les ambitions d'une jeune actrice, les conflits éclatent au sein d'une troupe de théâtre itinérante.
A chief physician at a women's clinic is against abortion. He strongly influence the patients not to abort. But there are doctors who think differently.
There are technical problems in the church and Mrs. Lindblom is the only one who has appeared at the mass, but the priest decides to carry out his sermon anyway.
Office clerk Margit suspects that the senior accountant is embezzling money from the company. Now the auditors are on their way to check the bookkeeping. It seems that the senior accountant isn't the only embezzler in the town, even the chief of police is a member of the Embezzler's Club. Margit decides to help the senior accountant.
Mr. Miller is the CEO of a big soap company whose son Henry like to spend his father's money but isn't interesting in working. Henry's laziness makes Mr. Miller upset and stressed out, so he assigns his young secretary (who the son also is in love with) to figure out a way to make Henry work and she will get 10,000 crowns ($1000). But things doesn't really to turn out the way Mr. Miller imagined.