Edvin Adolphson

Il giovane diplomato Göran e la diciassettenne Kerstin si conoscono nella tenuta dello zio di Göran, Persson, e si innamorano. Ma la loro relazione è vista con sospetto dal mondo degli adulti. Mentre Persson è comprensivo nei confronti dei giovani, i genitori di Kerstin e il pastore del villaggio si scagliano contro la presunta immoralità dei due ragazzi. Nonostante tutte le malizie, Göran e Kerstin decidono di seguire il loro amore. Ma questo amore durerà solo un'estate.

Una notte di Capodanno. In punto di morte, una militante dell'Esercito della Salvezza chiede di rivedere il suo protetto David, che si sta ubriacando in un cimitero, evocando l'antica credenza del carretto fantasma e del suo cocchiere, che conduce i morti nell'aldilà: il carro passa di mano ogni notte di San Silvestro, e a guidarlo è sempre l'ultima anima che, allo scoccare della mezzanotte, sia morta in peccato. David, colpito da una bottiglia, crolla a terra. Passa il carro, e il fantasma cocchiere si ferma a esaminare il passato di David, che ripercorriamo insieme a lui. Di fronte a quei tristi ricordi, l'uomo piange, e la sua protettrice supplica il cocchiere di lasciarlo andare. Inflessibile, il fantasma con la falce lo fa risalire sul carro; ma passando davanti alla casa di David, i due vedono attraverso la finestra che la moglie di lui si sta avvelenando. David prega il cocchiere di risparmiarla: la sincerità del suo cuore fa sì che la preghiera sia esaudita.

It's the last night of 1899. In Helsingfors they celebrate the new millennium. The students at the university are dancing and among them is Helge Ulfstjerna.

Mr. Markurell the innkeeper has great aspirations for his son and he doesn't hesitate to pull a few strings to ensure his son's success at school, causing great scandal in the process.

Based on the novel by Edith Unnerstad about a man, Pip Larsson, who invents a new kind of pot which makes a sound when the stuff you are cooking is ready. As he can't pay the bills he and his family get evicted but luckely they have a couple of carriages they can live in and travel round the country, selling the new kind of pots Pip Larsson has invented.

Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?

Maria is a waitress at a local restaurant when an older man propose to her. She is a bit skeptical but agrees to marry him and become the mistress of his estate Kvarngården. Maria had a son which she was forced to give away for adoption when he was born because she could not take care of him. She has keep contact with the child and posed as a kind aunt. She has not told her new husband about her son and when the years go by and no children of their own comes along the resentment and bitterness grows. When the adoptive mother of Maria's son dies she and the adoptive father agrees that the best thing for the boy is to come and stay with Maria at Kvarngården. She also hope that it will make her husband come out of his bitterness to have a young boy around. The result is unfortunately quite the opposite.