The actor Robert Berg is just about to get his dream role on the big stage in Stockholm when he gets called to the military service.

Two movie actors are conscripted; at the regiments spies are trying to get hold of secret documents.

Munthe has become a rich farmer through his own work and has gained some influence in the local community. He is strongly opposed to the immigration of east European farm labour from Galicia who, he claims, makes life difficult for the locals. A new school teacher with socialist leanings arrive and Munthe's daughter fall in love with him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Johan Tiger is an actor in Stockholm during World War II. A British agent in Sweden discovers that Johan is a dead ringer for General Lucky and manages to lure him over to London with a role as Othello as bait.

Anton, a very shy bookkeeper, must show his mettle when him and his colleagues at work ask for a raise but instead are laid off.

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.

A sleepy village around 1910. Jacob, the owner of a book store in a small town is a member of a club who baths together every Sunday. He is uninterested in women until Amelie Arbel moves into the town. She is both rich and seductive and he marries her. After the marriage he discovers that she can be very troublesome.

The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy Erik gets into a fistfight and is expelled, to instead become a captain of a trading ship. Before he leaves Ingrid and Erik are engaged in secret. Later, when Erik is believed to be lost at sea, Ingrid instead gets engaged with Arne.

Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.

A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public.