Harald's wife Eva has ambitions of becoming a writer, and divorces him to marry one of his friends, Anton. But Anton can't forget his former wife Ragna, and Harald is inheriting a large sum of money. Will this change things?
In the end of the great war and general major Arthur Ranlow orders an attack on an enemy atomic installation. He sends some men he suspects having a good eye towards his wife. Years later he is confronted with this under an occult session.
David has just been released from the prison. He meets the prostitute Maggi and follows her home. They decide to start a new life together and move to the countryside.
A surveillance radar is to be placed at the Norwegian coastline. Three soldiers volunteer to guard it, but only so that they can have a party afterwards.
The film is often referred to as a «labor film», because it is one of several film dramas from the 1930s that the Norwegian labor movement supported and which should give the audience an understanding of the labor movement's politics.
