Birgit Tengroth

After a young woman commits suicide, her neighbors try to piece together why she did it by tracking down her acquaintances.

Håkan Dahlin has been in an alcoholic institution and when he returns home he starts drinking again.

Wholesaler Berggren's daughter Elin travels to Örebro to spend her honeymoon with her husband Efraim. They get separate rooms on the hotel and later that night she finds another woman in her husband's bed. She goes back home immediately. Elin's sister Irma is courted by the handsome Klas, but he seems to be unable to forget his last fiancée.