Tailor Ågren in Ebberöd lives with his dominant wife Karolina and their two children. His everyday life would have been problem free if it weren't for his debts.

Ninni is a girl who is paralyzed from the waist down. Her mother dies and she is taken care of by a friend of the family. She is trapped in the heart of Stockholm and can't get out of the city because the lack of money.

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.

Poor painter helps a paralysed child.