Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.

A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern in the port a Polish dockworkers tries to tell something to the Swedish sailors, but is rudely turned away by the tavern owner. Later in the evening the port worker is found dead. That same evening one of the Swedish sailors, meets a Jewish woman who has fled Nazi Germany.

1936 film by Gustaf Molander

1952 film by Ingmar Bergman

After a 15-year marriage, a couple readies for divorce but suddenly realize that their feelings haven't vanished yet.

During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.