Northern Finland in the 1930's a worker is shot. The murderer belongs to the counterrevolutionary Lapua Movement. Fascism is spreading across Europe. A time of violence has arrived.
A group of young people gathered on the countryside to celebrate midsummer. On the journey home the car some of the youngsters are traveling in collides with a bus.
Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true.
An adaptation of Gustav Wied's nineteenth century novel about a baron who takes a young bride, but reacts brutally when she is not faithful to him.