A comedy in which the noted and rotund Swedish comedian, Edvard Persson, plays the title role (Baldevin), as a waterfront tramp leading his chosen life-style of indolence. A friend urges him to wage a courtship of a rich widow, which he does and manages to get involved in many humorous situations...
In a sham ceremony at the city hall, the dimwitted Fridolf is married to Margit. It doesn't take long, however, before he is arrested for bigamy. His first wife left him a few years ago, but Fridolf isn't very bright and he thought that she was dead when she wrote a letter to him saying that. She...
Inga starts working as a trainee at Skå Barnby at Färingsö outside Stockholm. There she gets acquainted with people living nearby. Soon disturbances and conflicts arise between them.