Em 1909, o estudante de teologia Henrik Bergman se apaixona por Anna Åkerbloom, jovem de uma família rica que é contra o namoro do casal. Anos mais tarde, eles se casam e se mudam para uma cidade onde terão que enfrentar suas diferenças.
Ricky is 16 years old and lives with his older brother Frank and Mom and dad in a hotel that the family run. The time is the mid-fifties. The family is not happy, the brothers can not stand each other and dad Martin is weighed down by economic concerns.
"Crocodile tears" - Fellowship is replaced by suspicion and hatred in a Stockholm suburb. Wheelchair-bound retiree Hugo lives with his wife and his mentally unstable son.
9-year old orphan called Rasmus runs away from the orphanage. He meets a vagabond they call Paradise Oskar who likes to sing and play his accordion. Oskar makes the Rasmus world seem like a better place.
In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At the beginning he is greeted with suspicion and his efforts at courting the young ladies are futile. But as soon as he buys himself a car it becomes much easier, especially since he has the power to relocate people to an easier line of work. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Rakel, Marta, Karin e Annette são casadas com quatro irmãos. Enquanto esperam numa cabana de verão para que seus maridos voltem para casa, elas contam histórias umas as outras sobre os seus casamentos. Rakel fala sobre o tempo que ela teve um caso e confrontou o marido com isso. A história de Marta é sobre como ela a princípio se recusou a casar e teve seu filho sozinha. Karin fala sobre o que aconteceu quando uma vez ela e o seu marido ficaram presos num elevador. Enquanto as mulheres contam as suas histórias, a irmã mais nova de Marta, Maj, está a planear fugir.
High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and move in with him in a large house. However, the life of a housewife soon becomes tedious. Her husband does not want her to study but secretly she enrolls in a high school again to be able to graduate. Her husband suspects funny business when she is spotted with her private tutor.
