Farmer Mårten Esbjörnsson has three adult sons who all want to find a wife to marry. However, all the young women of the neighborhood seem to be less than perfect.

Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.

Gammel-Nils works as a guide at Glimmingehus and guides us through this movie about love and ghosts.

Baron Brusenhielm at castle Tröstehult in Skåne dislikes how his young son Karl Oscar is playing “mother and father” with the tenant’s daughter Ann-Marie, as he anticipates the beginning of a future misalliance. Years pass, and Karl Oscar is about to graduate high school. He pretends to study church history but reads in fact “The Seducer’s Diary” and thinks of Ann-Marie, who is now grown up into a woman.

Henrik Karlsson is accused of having stolen 5,000 SEK, even though he is innocent. But to protect the real thief, who is sick in hospital, Karlsson takes the full responsibility.

The Skåne farmer Jeppsson has a tax debt and gets into trouble when he refuses to pay.

Teacher Rundqvist who works in a school in a small town in Scania is old fashioned but loved by his pupils. When a younger teacher with new ideas of teaching starts at the school Rundqvist's methods are questioned.

Carl Malm is a goodhearted man who runs a railway station. He lives together with his maid and her seven kids.

Students John Ek, Sten Klang and Georg Hult enjoy life at Lund University, while trying to win the heart of the beautiful Maggie Frisch. Parody film made by students at Lund University.

Kalle Jeppson is the joyful owner of a rural inn, "Spången" (The Footbridge). His only problems are all the bylaws that makes it difficult to have a quiet drink and the shrew of his wife who is always nagging on him. Kalle is afraid to tell her that Karin the maid is really his daughter from the days before their marriage.