Marianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern. The theatre has financial troubles and its existence is under threat. Marianne falls in love with Stig Broman, the owner of the theatre. After a few problems, the actors manage to set up a show, with Marianne as leading lady, which will decide the fate of the theatre.

Hans Lövgren happens to win a seal on a lottery during a trip to France. Terrified, he brings the seal home to his Paris apartment and tries to function together with the charming but barking guest.

The year is 1946. Dr. Bertil Burman works at a Red Cross Hospital in Vienna. One day, a barely teenage girl, Leni Rosner, collapses at his reception.

The rich, aristocratic Katarina Hassel have an architect renovate her mansion. Katarina fall in love with the young architect, Gunnar Stenwall. Alas, he doesn't fall in love with her. But perhaps if Gunnar would meet her identical sister, who works in Stockholm as a waitress, he would fall in love with her instead? So Katarina travels to Stockholm to act as her non-existing sister.

In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.

The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.

The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.

伯格曼最早期的作品，显示了他的风格。他让主角在经历了长期的黑暗和绝望的煎熬后，对爱欲的渴望成为继续下去的动力源泉，情欲的饥渴和需要便顺理成章，成为治疗现实创伤的唯一灵丹。

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