Olof Koskela, the only son is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a floater. His reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide. When he meets the proud Kyllikki, he enters into a bet to defeat the mighty rapids standing on a log.
On a farm in east-Norway lives Jonas Værn. He befriends a traveling finn Ahti who tells about his lost love and the man that took it from him. Ahti is later accused of murdering that fellow traveler....
