Nine-Christine Jönsson

A German sociologist goes to Sweden to investigate whether the Swedish sin is myth or not. He stations himself in a student home for girls. His fiancée in Berlin fantasizes about the study, and to allay her worries she packs her bags and goes to find him, to convince him to come home.

The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also at school he has to face regular beatings because of his Stockholm background, the only one who cares for him is a girl, Lotta, who promises to marry him one day. When he's 20 he moves to Stockholm and joins the Royal guards at the Royal palace. Quite by accident he meets Lotta again and start an affair with her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Gösta trabaja como estibador en el muelle del puerto de Göteborg. Un día, salva a Berit, una chica muy joven que estaba a punto de ahogarse. Más tarde, se vuelven a ver en un baile. Berit, que es una joven muy independiente, nunca vuelve a ver a sus amantes de una noche; pero Pero Gösta será la excepción.

Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.

In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are confiscated and Heikki vows to have his revenge by seducing the young women of the parish, one by one.

A doctor for females gets a visit from Gun, who wants to get an abortion. But the doctor wants her to reconsider and keep the baby.

In the early 18th century the priest Martin Ryselius has become widower and stands alone with a one-year-old daughter. He is seeking the meaning of existence by heading north in Sweden for a priesthood service in the mountains.