Bertil y Ruth son una joven pareja que atraviesa una crisis matrimonial. Mientras recorren en tren una Alemania asolada por la guerra, reflexionan sobre el fracaso de su vida en común. Ruth se muestra agresiva y expresa un enorme rencor hacia los hombres y, especialmente, hacia el padre que abusó de ella. Bertil es más razonable, aunque ha vivido una aventura que terminó con el suicidio de una mujer.
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Gösta Ekman in the role as coat janitor Filip, a dreamer that has failed in life and sees people as the cloths he has in his wardrobe. One-night three guests enter the restaurant, the extensive Viding with his beautiful wife Jane, and the remorseless manager Kurtz. Viding who owes Kurtz money demands his wife to be accommodating toward him. Filip watches her pulling a gun...
Helga Breder is a young, spoiled girl. To her beloved Jörgen she says that she, as a modern young woman, is multi-talented and can do whatever she likes. Jörgen bets that she can't work as a house-maid but, if she manages it, he will buy her a diamond ring. Helga becomes a house-maid at Vinger Mansion and falls in love with an inventor, Bertil Frigård, who lives there.
