Desirée, a modern librarian with urban friends and interests is visiting her late husband's grave when she meets Benny, a simple farmer. After his mother's death Benny lives alone on the run-down farm, desperately seeking a woman to take care of him. In spite of their differences the two have the dream of finding that special someone in common, and fall passionately in love. Benny wants Desirée to move in with him and start a family as soon as possible. But being a farmer's wife is not something she is very enthusiastic about. Just presenting Benny as her boyfriend proves to be an embarrassing experience. And when she gets a tempting job offer in Stockholm she has to consider her priorities carefully.

A father must not disappoint. If you have promised to go fishing together, the promise applies. No obstacles count, reasons the boy and leave.

Emma Bergkvist lives with her sister Josefin, mother Carola, father Pierre, and nanny Åsa in a house outside Stockholm. Her father is a researcher at Swedish Energy Testing and has found a solution to the world's energy problems. He has succeeded in extracting energy from pure water. It is nighttime, and an intruder has broken into the house. The flashlight shines on the sleeping children. Emma wakes up and calls for her mother, who comes and tries to comfort her from her nightmares. Emma insists that they are not nightmares, but that there are thieves in the house.

After hiring Micke, a carpenter from Stockholm, to help renovate her kitchen, upper class Veronica develops immediate feelings for him. The two are keen to start a relationship, but their two children are less enthusiastic. Veronica decides a holiday to Bohuslan where her parents live is just what the couple needs.

1969. A young chef takes a job on a ship with a friend. However, there they have to cope with the dangerous daily routine in the kitchen under a domineering head chef.

It is the first day of the summer vacation. Jojje, Jerker and Fabian wants to borrow a sailing boat to take a boat trip so they steal it. They plan to examine all of Lake Maelaren, but a storm breaks out and the boat sinks. They go ashore, steal food and a new boat. While everybody else believes them to be dead, they have a wonderful time. They meet a crazy Count and find a dead body.