Après avoir découvert que sa femme le trompait, un officier de l'armée cible son rival avant de partir combattre en Finlande pendant la guerre d'Hiver.
Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
Jan-Erik, jeune lycéen, est brimé par Caligula, un professeur de latin tyrannique. Il tombe amoureux de Berta, une jeune femme aux moeurs légères. Celle-ci lui confie qu'elle est harcelée par un homme, qui se révèle être Caligula.
1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.