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.
Monica, Anderssons dotter
Andersson is always complaining about high taxes and dreams about a world with no taxes.
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.
