Day to day life for an aristocratic family is upended when they lose their fortune and their housekeeper suddenly receives a large inheritance.

The story about a Stockholm wholesaler and his three daughters.

Funfair worker Valdemar is unknowingly the illegitimate son of a rich landowner, colonel Von Brede. The colonel knows and employs Valdemar as his stable master. The colonel has a young and beautiful ward, Eva, but will she and Valdemar fall in love with each other?

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