The mayoress of Grönköping is against all immoral entertainment until she one day falls in love with the circus director that arrives in town.

A series of family entanglements develop around the changing will of Roger Bernhuses de Sars, who wants his heritage to go to his illegitimate daughter Blenda. But love and fate also plays their cards.

Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La Débâcle" by Émile Zola.

At a seaside resort, the artist Armand, the widow Gaspard and her daughter Estelle, as well as the disguised abbot Prevost, trying to get Armand to go to the monastery. Based on the novel Lourdes by Émile Zola.

An old poor man steals some wood and gets sentenced to 1 1/2 years of hard labor.

A wife applies for a divorce since her husband does nothing but read the newspaper. But since they have three children, the division of property proves to be a problem.