Gösta Hellström

The Beckius family is living near the border to Russia. The youngest son, Armas, is living a wild life that eventually leads to a break with the family after which he joins the Russian Revolution. When he returns to his home country a few years later the family on the enemy's side.

A traveling theatre company comes to Lund and one of the smallest hotels in town. A female actress gets a key by mistake to a room where Sten Stensson Stéen lives.

A married woman visits her lover.

Around the inn Gröna Lund on Långa gatan at Djurgården, Stockholm in 1932. Bellman songs, drinking and a saxophone cabaret.