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- An innocent young pianist falls into an affair with a married violinist.
- An embittered woman, leader of a criminal gang, has a change of heart.
- Eva Bergh works as a bank clerk, but dreams of becoming an artist. At a party she meets the rich Harald Ribe and he instantly falls in love with her. When he proposes to marry her she has no work or place to live and she accepts. At Harald's estate she can live comfortably, but she misses her old friends.
- Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.
- In 1803, Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he goes to England and becomes one of the first builders of locomotives. Despite large debts, he invents the propeller. In 1839 he crosses the Atlantic and builds ships for the US Navy. When the US Civil War breaks out, the Federation needs a ship to match the Confederate 'Merrimac' and preventing the Confederation from exporting cotton to Europe. Ericsson builds the 'Monitor', a ship the Federation needs to win the war.
- An orphan, Josefa, runs away from her threatening uncle with whom she is living, and stows away on traveller Fændrik's boat. She is no better off with him, however, as he forces himself on her and makes her steal and beg for a living. Meanwhile Fændrik's sister, who has been left penniless on shore by her deceitful brother, joins forces with Josefa's fiancé, Oscar, in a search for the missing pair.
- Pettersson, the charmer, and Bendel, the clever one, team up and begin to do small-time semi-legal business.
- The Beckius family lives near the border to Russia. Their youngest son, Armas, lives a wild life that ultimately leads to a break with the family and he then takes off and joins the Russian Revolution.
- The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm. His three children Bo, Julia and Rolf Jr also live in the house. They also have an excellent house maid, Boman. Because of the family's extravagance, they are heading for bankruptcy. But perhaps their problems would be solved if Rolf was awarded the Nobel Prize?
- Anderssonskans Kalle is the typical 'Söderkis'. It's a boy growing up on Söder in Stockholm and he is very fond of practical jokes. His mother sees him as a good natured boy but his victims, mostly the local policeman and two old crones in the same house, see him as the devil himself.
- Kalle Jeppson is the joyful owner of a rural inn, "Spången" (The Footbridge). His only problems are all the bylaws that makes it difficult to have a quiet drink and the shrew of his wife who is always nagging on him. Kalle is afraid to tell her that Karin the maid is really his daughter from the days before their marriage.
- Øjvind, a smallholder's boy, is a close friend with Marit, a farmer's girl, throughout their entire childhood. As an adolescent he one day recognizes that she has become a maiden, and that he has fallen in love with her. When he sees Marit dancing with Jon Halten, a farmer's son, he gets sad, and notices that when you start loving someone, you are not cheerful any more. He senses the social distance between himself and Marit, and tries to compensate this by becoming the best pupil in the village. Øjvind wants to study at an agricultural college, and the old schoolmaster helps him to arrange this. When he some years later returns to the village as an agronomist, he and Marit resume their romance. Because of their different social status Marit's grandfather, Ola Nordistua, tries to stop the liaison. With new agricultural methods Øjvind helps his father to get better harvests. At the same time the old Ola Nordistua sees his farm going downhill as no one really cares for it. He recognizes his mistake concerning Øjvind, and gives him his granddaughter and the farm.
- The politicians wants to build a factory on the allotment garden Solgläntan, but they encounter resistance.
- Helga Breder is a young, spoiled girl. To her beloved Jörgen she says that she, as a modern young woman is multi-talented and can do whatever she likes. Jörgen bets that she can't work as a house-maid but, if she manages it, he will buy her a diamond ring. Helga becomes a house-maid at Vinger Mansion and falls in love with an inventor, Bertil Frigård, who lives there.
- The rich Haller family have lost nearly all their money after investing in the stock market. They need more money, but from where? They have a young house-maid, Sara, who inherits a fortune from a rich uncle in Australia. Sara is in love with the son in the family, Georg Haller, but he won't marry for money. She has to spend all her money if she will ever marry him...
- Diddi Werner is an orphan and has been raised by her aunts Lotten and Amalia. Amalia wants her to study further after graduation while Lotten wants her to get married. Lotten predicts her future and see a dark, older man in the cards.
- At home in the bedroom of criminal commissioner Holmberg and his wife Evelina, a marital argument is under way. Evelina says there is a lot of burglary around and not to wonder when they have lousy detectives like him.
- Den arbeidsløsa Harald får bo hos dobbelt-Petra, hvor også Alvilde bor med sitt barn som hun har med en sjøgutt som stakk av. Harald treffer sjøgutten og denger ham opp. Harald har trodd han ikke kan arbeide, men oppdager nå at han er frisk og sterk. Alvilde blir forelsket i ham. De gifter seg samtidig som barnet blir døpt sammen med alle andre "løsunger" som en fanatisk kapellan har holdt borte fra kirken, men som kirketjener Evensen har så meget til overs for.
- Ingrid Eriksson, a social worker, decides to find out something about the problems of "hired Help/servant girls", and gets herself a job as a servant at the home of John Willman. Willman's son, Ake, falls in love with her and numerous complications arise before the course of true love runs smoothly.
- The movie version of Gideon Wahlbergs comedy about the happy life in Södermalm of Stockholm.
- A postal clerk is robbed and threatened to his life, giving up the money. In his community he is seen upon as a coward, ruining his family. After moving he meets a man who seems to knows it, wanting to help him regain his life and honor.
- Somewhere on the Jutland heath lies Hegnsgaard, owned by the strict Wolle. His wife, Karen, was forced into the marriage, even though she really loved poor Per. Wolle and Karen's daughter has a good eye for the farmhand Visti, but the parents are strongly opposed. They send Visti away, but secretly Per fights for love to win in the end.
- Two marines go AWOL and save a girl from drowning, they then sneak her aboard their ship.
- Bertil Dahl deals with bonds at a bank. He dislikes that his colleagues are lying to customers to sell more bonds and pledges to tell the truth for 24 hours. But the social life is smoothed by using white lies and Bertil's truth-telling is making everybody upset.