Alf Sjöberg

The officer Robert Motander is invited to a dinner with his upper-class relatives. During the dinner he observes the beautiful young house-maid, Iris. He suggests that the two of them go out to see a movie. This is the beginning of love story that Robert's relatives will do anything to stop. A working-class mistress will do but a working-class fiancée? Never!

About serf wife Maria, called Rya-Rya, her life from a young beautiful girl with dreams of love to a worn-out mother, who only lives for her children.

An idealistic adolescent suffering under the thumb of a sadistic schoolmaster falls in love with a loose girl who is bullied and tormented by another lover.

An heiress begins to realize her attraction to one of her family's servants.