Gunnar Olsson

Filip works as a coat janitor at a restaurant; he is a dreamer who has failed in life and sees people as the clothes he has in his wardrobe. On one night, three guests enter the restaurant: the extensive Viding with his beautiful wife Jane, and the remorseless manager Kurtz.

Is man's existence really meaningful and hopeful? As a reply to Ingmar Bergman's Prison (1949), this movie claims that it is. A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies, and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.