 When the love-affair between Mattias Dahl and Ingrid Löfgren becomes the talk of the village, Ingrid breaks off the liaison. Her daughter Gunilla arrives from Stockholm to spend her summer vacation in the village, but she leaves again after only two days, finding life in the countryside too boring. Ingrid takes an overdose of sleeping pills and is brought to a mental hospital. The large-scale farmer Berndt Andersson marries his fiancée Lillemor. During the wedding dinner the small-scale farmer Evert Persson puts a damper on the jollity by announcing that he has to sell his farm.