In the Swedish small town Kungshamn the journalist Fridolf Svensson writes for the local newspaper Allehanda.

Social comedy-drama. Aristocrat's boredom in marriage of convenience and sacrif ice of self on behalf of wife's lover.

"The Ingmar Inheritance". The story of a group of farmers who choose to leave their homes and follow the preacher Helgum to the Holy Land.

Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is finally defrocked. He becomes a tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.