Helen Wahlman is the hostess of a luxury hotel in the mountains. Her husband fled to Chile 15 years ago, after being guilty of fraud, and was killed there. Helen's image of marriage is just dark memories. A few days before Christmas, Helen gets a shock as her husband appears from the dead at the hotel.

Eva is a very talented and able college girl. In the summer she is going to work at a farm. There she meets a different world of unwanted children, desires and temporary relationships.

Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn are winter fishing.

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?

1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.

In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions

The priest Hagen comes to a small Norwegian village one stormy evening. He brings the tragic news to wife Sigrid Bakken. Her husband and oldest son has drowned during fishing.

Three boys "borrow" a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren.

Johansson has a small mechanical workshop, which provides for him and his family.

The teacher Clemens is instructed to learn to dance so that he can teach the subject.