Birgitta Hoppeler

Tailor Ågren in Ebberöd lives with his dominant wife Karolina and their two children. His everyday life would have been problem free if it weren't for his debts.

Ninni is a girl who is paralyzed from the waist down. Her mother dies and she is taken care of by a friend of the family. She is trapped in the heart of Stockholm and can't get out of the city because the lack of money.

Poor painter helps a paralysed child.

Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.