Marie-Louise Sorbon

The widow Maja Brummell lives in Stockholm with her daughters Elsa, Brita, Ann-Marie, Svea and Ingrid. Mrs. Brummell has a lousy business sense.

Two marines go AWOL and save a girl from drowning, they then sneak her aboard the ship.

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 pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.

A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV. With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.