A film about family secrets... and deathbed confessions.

Count de Faber is working on a new type of explosive, but finds out that Professor Plussman has beat him to it. After an unsuccessful attempt to acquire the formula from Plussman, he breaks into the professor's house, steals the formula, and kidnaps his daughter, Mary. He takes her to Carlsten Fortress.

Married couple Agaton and Fina travels through Europe, constantly bickering.

A man buys a pair of galoshes at an auction and discovers they are magic, and can take the wearer wherever he wishes. He travels with a friend on an adventurous trip around the world.

Violet, employed as a maid of Count Berkow, is wrongly accused of burglary of the Count. After an unjust prison sentence Violet travels to America.

A motherless child has a tumultuous existence, but she eventually becomes a famous international opera singer. Past and present meet when she performs in her original home town.

"Between life and death" - Dr Brinck and his assistant Inger Holm spend days and nights in his laboratory to experiment with a revolutionary medical cure for poisoning. Inger Holm is deeply in love with his boss. When the two scientists one day go to bed and visit an outdoor server, Brinck's manufacturer will meet Warren and his daughter Elsa and get an opportunity to help Elsa with a damaged foot. Thanks to him, he is invited to a party in the manufacturer's luxurious home...

Two gentlemen meet a light-hearted young woman at a summer hotel. She enjoys being spoiled and the trio travels to Paris. Love arises and one of the men is excluded and becomes jealous.

An old poor man steals some wood and gets sentenced to 1 1/2 years of hard labor.

Harald steals money in order to pay a personal guarantee. The crime is discovered and he is sentenced to imprisonment. After the penalty is served he travels to America to begin a new life.