A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern in the port…

Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made…

An intense love affair develops between a married concert violinist (Gösta Ekman) and his daughter’s music teacher (Ingrid Bergman).