When the gods appear in disguise the only person who shows them hospitality is the young girl Shen Te and for this she is awarded by them. After a while she finds her new life has also brought new problems.
Nils Holgersson es un niño travieso que vive con sus padres en una granja y se divierte gastando crueles bromas a los animales. Un día atrapa a un duende y éste le ofrece una buena moneda si le libera, pero Nils no mantiene su promesa y el duende, como castigo, le reduce a un tamaño minúsculo, aunque también le da la facultad de entender el lenguaje de los animales. Temiendo la venganza de los animales de la granja, Nils escapa agarrándose al ganso doméstico Martin, que ha decidido unirse a una bandada de gansos salvajes en su emigración anual hacia Laponia.
Young Anna Rydell comes to a boarding-school for girls. She is very shy and the other girls don't really try to get to know her. The French teacher Martin Andreasson, who Anna falls in love with, lives at the boarding-school with his wheel chair-bound wife. Her handicap has made her depressed and Martin finds it hard to love her like he used to do.
Old lady Malin Klintbom is being promised a cosy and comfortably life at the residential home she is invited to visit. However, she finds the home impossible to live at and flies in panic to her cabin.
Albert, el propietario de un circo, abandona a su familia para entregarse a Anne, una orgullosa y apasionada amazona que mantiene relaciones esporádicas con un joven y neurótico actor. Pero el circo es un desastre y Albert y su compañera se ven obligados a mendigar para sobrevivir.
Bolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to the road. He and the other hobos have only one problem and that is the mounted policemen chasing vagrants.
