Rebekka West lives with widower Johannes Rosmer in his mansion since his wife, and her friend, committed suicide a year ago. When Rosmer supports the new government his friend starts to spread rumours about him and Rebekka's relationship, implying that they caused his wife's suicide.

Corporal Åsa-Nisse Nilsson is an officer who somehow manages to teach his soldiers both discipline and the art of war.

A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Hjalle and his colleague get over a large amount of money at a break. This changes their lives to a more luxurious existence, but one day, Hjalle meets a woman who has good contact with God, and this affects Hjalle's conscience ...

The puppy love of two teenagers is set against a backdrop of adults struggling with their own lives. As a couple in love, they don't care about anything but themselves and seem totally unaware about everything that surrounds them.

Harry Friberg photographs a mysterious lightning in the water outside the Blockhusudden. The light turns out to flow over a murder.

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

Middle-aged schoolteacher Viveka and her husband Sune enter a marriage marked by devotion and increasing strain. As Viveka’s jealousy and religious anxiety intensify into paranoid delusions, Sune becomes progressively entangled in her condition, transforming their relationship into a shared psychological collapse.

Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this is true. He test the king by pretending to be insane and put on a show where the murder is reconstructed.

A dystopian view of the future in the year 2005. Disa applies for a job in the data section of the department of traffic safety.