Adolf Niska

Thomas Abel is a happily married man with children, and head of one of the largest companies in Sweden. His life will soon change after a serious accusation is made against him.

Two movie actors are conscripted; at the regiments spies are trying to get hold of secret documents.

Beautiful young Eva is comfortably married to the wealthy Georg Bonnet, who enjoys the company of several artists and painters. When Eva finds herself drawn to handsome young artist Paul Verdier, she sets off a series of devestating events.

Based on the poems by finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the movie centers on the Finnish War between Russia and Sweden in 1808.

Sweden in the 1870s. In Hälsingland the brothers Olov and Jonas own the home of Övergården.