Anders de Wahl

Trois hommes et deux femmes badinent avec l'amour…

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.

Hjalmar Björklund and his daughter Margit runs a second-hand bookshop in a small Swedish town.

Kalle Utter is theologian student at Uppsala University sometime during the latter half of the 19th century.

Pelle Frisk is second-in-command on the S/S Hispania. He is a fighter and a ladies man and known as "The Flying Dutchman".