 Many of the villagers have love-problems. The marriage between Willy and Lena Strid is in crisis, and the marriage between Mattias and Elisabeth Dahl is even worse. Mattias has a love-affair with Ingrid Löfgren, while his son, Lars-Erik Dahl, is emotionally and sexually frustrated by not finding any woman to love. The teen-agers Lennart Andersson and Eva Persson fall in love, but their first attempt at having sex doesn t work.