Writing
Swedish novelist.
Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues fifteen years later when a son of one of the officers and a smuggler's daughter fall in love with each other.
Åke Hjelm and Wilhelm Holt run a business together. Hjelm is honest and fair, but Holt takes every opportunity to gain some easy money – legal or not.
Fisherman Efraimsson is planning to make some easy money by starting a smuggeling business. Meanwhile his daughter Anna is being courted by local customs officer Lilja, and when Anna discovers her father’s plans, she decides to try to stop the awaiting tragedy.
The son of a poor fisherman and the daughter of a wealthy landlord fall in love, but meet with obstacles to being together. Their happiness meets with objection by her father, who intends to permanently separate them.
