Kurt and Sonja are happily married and dream of buying a house and have children. One day Kurt's old friend Nick pops up. Secrets from Sonja's past life surface.

Kjell Loväng returns to his parent's farm after a few years of work in Stockholm. He discovers that his father Arvid neglects the farm and spends too much time drinking and meeting other women. Kjell has to prove to his father his ability to manage the farm.

Managing Director Erik Cassander is in financial strain and his only hope is a wealthy aunt.

Land owner Bill Bärnfelt sees a beautiful woman when he is out riding and immediately falls in love. But then his former fiancee turns up and makes a fuss.

A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern in the port a Polish dockworkers tries to tell something to the Swedish sailors, but is rudely turned away by the tavern owner. Later in the evening the port worker is found dead. That same evening one of the Swedish sailors, meets a Jewish woman who has fled Nazi Germany.

Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new and modern house instead.

Mattsson is a fisherman and widower in the Stockholm archipelago. He has two adult daughters that help run the household, Magda and Lena. Lena prefers to shirk her duties and read romance novels. She is being courted by the neighbour boy Per who covers for her whenever he can.

Based on the classic children’s story, seven orphan siblings and their goat make a difficult journey over the mountains to find new parents.