Ambros Fornes owns two large farms and stunning four horses. These horses comes to fill his life because his young beautiful wife, Lisle, does not manage to love him as he loves her.
Fabian Bom, auctionist in a small town, one day finds a baby boy in a small crib that is for sale at an auction. He places the boy at an orphanage but returns the next day since he realizes that he misses the boy. Since a single man is not permitted to adopt a baby he arranges a marriage with a young woman, who really is the baby's mother. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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.
The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers. To regain her attention, he joins the infantry. Bom becomes a soldier who loves the military training, long marches as well as hard labour as punishment. He meets Agnes, who falls madly in love with him. 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.
