Kalle Utter is theologian student at Uppsala University sometime during the latter half of the 19th century.

Pelle Frisk is second-in-command on the S/S Hispania. He is a fighter and a ladies man and known as "The Flying Dutchman".

Based on the poems by finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the movie centers on the Finnish War between Russia and Sweden in 1808.

Brothers Österman at Svanö, after several years of bachelor life, say they need a housekeeper and announce the matter in the newspaper.