Ingrid Sandahl

A Swedish feature film based on a novel by Fritiof Nilsson Piraten.

Just before the young Anna is getting married to the lighthouse keeper Holmstrand, she meets the Norwegian sailor John. He falls in love with her, but leaves her when he is told she is engaged.

At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.

Synnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain, often looks wistfully up to Solbakken. As teenagers they meet and fall in love. Another boy, Knud Nordhaug, is also yearning for Synnöve.

The wife of a dull-witted miller is in her deathbed and the miller must find a new woman to marry. He is expected to marry the sister of a local forester, a refined woman he wants to love. She is gentle and motherly, though a rather austere Christian. But the miller lusts after his maidservant, Lise, a ruthless and calculating woman determined to climb up the social ladder. Lise tries to use her lower class sensuality and a bit of magic to entice the miller.

Holger Brandt, violoniste mondialement connu, revient dans sa famille après une tournée. Lui et sa femme sont mariés depuis de nombreuses années, mais leur amour s'est estompé. Leur fille a un nouveau professeur de piano, Anita Hoffman. M. Brandt tombe amoureux d'elle et ils partent ensemble en tournée mondiale, mais il découvre bientôt que les sentiments pour sa femme qu'il croyait éteints ne le sont pas.