Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and breaks in to the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter Elsalill.
To save intoxicated friend Boman from getting caught, two conscripts lock him up in the local jail and release a prisoner, Ivan Jansson, so that he can pretend to be Boman for a few hours. But when the real Boman is transported to the county jail, switching them back could be difficult.
A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move together to Stockholm to start a life together.
선원이었던 고스타는 배에서 내리자마자 한 여자가 바닷물에 뛰어들어 자살을 시도하는 것을 본다. 그는 친구인 구스타브와 함께 지내면서, 부두에서 새로운 직업을 갖는다. 그는 토요일 저녁 클럽에 갔다가 우연히 베리트를 만나게 되고, 그녀와 하룻밤을 보내게 된다. 공장 노동자인 베리트는 파란만장한 과거를 가진 여인으로, 고스타와 함계 놀러간 호텔에서 우연히 친구인 거트루드를 만나게 되고, 그날 저녁 베리트는 고스타에게 지신의 과거를 모두 말하게 되는데…. 그녀의 과거를 알게된 고스타는 심한 갈등에 빠지게 된다.
작은 마을의 피아노 선생인 잉예보리는 넬리를 자신의 딸처럼 사랑한다. 그러나 어느 날 그녀의 성공한 생모 예니가 불쑥 찾아와 넬리를 데리고 가겠다고 한다. 새로운 도시 생활을 꿈꾸던 넬리는 그녀를 따라가 미장원에 취직하고 예니의 애인이 야크를 사랑하게 된다. 그러나 예니에게 구속된 야크는 절망에 휩싸여 자살한다. 넬리는 자신을 무한히 사랑하는 잉예보리에게 돌아간다.
An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.
A female reporter invents a story about a man who threatens to take his life to protest the injustices of society. But the scam is about to be revealed. She is forced to persuade a tramp to play the fictional man.
Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded by minefields and the fog slips in the sweeping headlights of the cargo ship S/S Rune. But the ship bows relentlessly forward through the night.
"The Ingegerd Bremssen Case" - The young nurse Ingegerd Bremssen walks on a lonely road in the woods and gets attacked by a man. He rapes her and disappears. A passing car picks up Ingegerd and drives her to a mental hospital, where she is taken care of. But she has suffered a severe shock and considers her life completely ruined.
