Kari Sylwan

Dans un manoir vivent trois sœurs, Karin, Maria, Agnès, et la servante Anna. Agnès, atteinte d'un cancer de l'utérus, est en train de mourir. Karin, Maria et Anna se relaient à son chevet, et tentent de l'aider à passer ses derniers moments. Avant que la jalousie, la manipulation et l'égoïsme ne finissent par s'inviter à cette veillée funèbre…

Jenny Isaksson et son mari sont deux brillants psychiatres. Jenny se met un jour à avoir des sentiments et des visions qui l’oppressent. Elle passe petit à petit du statut de médecin à celui de patiente.

La mère de Reine doit s'absenter pour travailler et le garçon doit partir en camp de vacances, mais il décide de rester à Stockholm, seul sans lui dire. Il déambule dans les rues de la ville et fait des rencontres...

The jack of all trades Pekka is having financial trouble and is being hunted by a debt collector.

It is in a battlefield in Karelia, Finland during the Continuation war (1941-1944). Intensive shooting between Finnish and Soviet troops takes place. The Soviet occupation is strong, and on the Finnish side it is ordered to withdraw. But Captain Viktor Aaltonen does not listen to the order but wants to shorten a wounded companion's suffering. Aaltonen is taken to the Soviet prison camp, Vorkuta, where he will spend a decade.

A group of teddybears awaken in the attic after years of storage. Store-Nalle (Big Teddy) explains the history of the species, from the very first teddybears manufactured in Germany. Other segments include dramatizations of the directors' childhood memories, as well as interviews with several stuffed animal owners.

Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist married to another psychiatrist; both are successful in their jobs but slowly, agonizingly, Jenny succumbs to a breakdown. She is haunted by images and emotions from her past and eventually cannot function as a wife, doctor, or individual.