The city boy Rolf gets a job on a big farm, and soon lies about finding gold. We see the rise of gold fever while the corn rots away.

A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany from getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic bomb during the Second World War.

Andrine and Kjell are both 17, and attends a private high school. Many things disturb their way to the spring exams, and fall in love. The come from different backgrounds, but gets common problems when she rents a room at Kjells parents.

After being fired as barbers, Bernt and Nils get jobs working for an employee at a large department store. They become embroiled in the rivalry between two bosses, Ålberg and Hagen, who are both competing for a prize of 5,000 kroner for the best act at the company's autumn fair. Ålberg has no scruples and resorts to both cheating and kidnapping.

The young fisherman Tørres wants to become rich, so he can get revenge over Krøger, who has taken his family home. He gets a job in Mrs. Knudsen's shop to establish himself, and after a short time he has the upper hand on Krøger...

When a popular doctor, leading the job to get a hospital to town, celebrates his 60th birthday there's a big party. But a new doctor discovers malpractice. But when the doctor is ill with a bad appendix, the tables are turned.

An American bomber is shot down on the Norwegian coast during World War II. The airmen bail out and land at different locations. In spite of the German search for them, the Norwegian resistance picks them up and hides them in the attic of the local church, a center of operations. Things become tense, however, when the hideout is spotted by a notorious collaborator, and soon the protagonist, Hans, has to get the airmen to Sweden.

In the end of the great war and general major Arthur Ranlow orders an attack on an enemy atomic installation. He sends some men he suspects having a good eye towards his wife. Years later he is confronted with this under an occult session.

The film takes place in the idyllic town of Solsund. Per Haug, a temporary worker, bachelor, amateur painter and leader of the political opposition in the city council, lives there. One day he rushes home from a turbulent city council meeting and angrily paints a portrait of Mayor Abrahamsen.

Businessman Braa has many enemies and is put in prison after a scam. While in prison his wife dies of a serious illness, while Roll takes over the business. But he is not popular with the workers. When Braa gets out, it's time for revenge.