A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving from job to job and meeting a variety of individuals who gradually shape his future.
A young, shy and inexperienced man travels back to Sweden, to spend the summer at his mother's house. He meets a number of women with whom he has sexual relations.
Jeanette is an inmate at a juvenile prison. She contemplates her life which has been miserable ever since birth.
Ebon Lundin is the anonymous but odd living man, who becomes a Christ-like, misunderstood figure who suffer much scorn and derision of the cruel reality.
Satire ridicule the idyllic Christmas time. In theatrical tableaux, we meet a group of eccentric, Christmas celebrating people, including a manic-cleaning dwarf.