Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg’s novel.

It’s Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he’s decided to sell it. The following morning he’s found murdered.

Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg’s wife won’t have any children, and when she becomes…