After Matti is stabbed to death at his own wedding, Eero of Ojelmiston becomes a suspect, presumed to have avenged his recently deceased wife. Eero escapes with the help of a court judge but surrenders after his mother gets into trouble. At the courthouse, the priest admits that Vieremä Jaska confessed to the crime on his deathbed. The film has survived, but without subtitles.

Armas, a somewhat frivolous painter, arrives in the outer archipelago with his friend and falls in love with Annikki, the fiancée of a young pilot named Eero. A stormy night brings a resolution to the love triangle.

Much to the sorrow of Kaj's mother, the engineer's son marries the beautiful but frivolous Doris instead of his serious foster sister Leonore.

"Everyone Avenges Themselves". At the instigation of Louis Berger, Henry Rogers is falsely accused of having embezzled a large sum of money and sentenced to prison. As a convict in the prison quarry, he becomes good friends with the warden's son, Allan. Lille Allan believes in Henry's innocence and help him escape.

Rural comedy of the intrigues and stratagems involving a country wedding. From a comedy by Alexis Kivi.

Arvid falls in love with cabaret singer Lussie and, much to his mother's dismay, marries this adventurous woman. Soon after the wedding, Lussie begins an affair with Russian lieutenant Arnold, which ultimately leads to tragic events.

Örn, an aging countess, reminisces on the tragic fate of the young lovers, Carl-Johan Örn and Margareta by the family grave.

In the small village of Nuottaniemi live Iisakki and his daughter Hanna. Iisakki bears a grudge against Heikki, blaming him for the death of his son in a timber rafting accident. To make things worse, Heikki's son Juhani wants to marry Hanna but she only has eyes for the lumberjack Antti.

Ayo Vindico is known in the capital Stockholm as the Bird of paradise.

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