Gerda Björne

The prologue shows a Swedish home, where a family discusses what "a handful of rice" can mean. The action then moves to Thailand and shows the life of a Thai couple, Pó Chai and Mé Ying, and their lives of joy and hardship in the jungle growing rice.

Countess Hedvig von Wärnfelt (born Wärnfelt), receives her orphan's granddaughter Marianne to educate her in tukt and her reverence. Marianne is an iron and vibrant young girl, who also carries theater grills. The Countess is staggered over her uneducated facials and treats her severely, hard and joyless.

Spoiled heir is involved in a hit and run after a drunken night. (imdb)

In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help a widow with the farm. (imdb)

Ingrid Eriksson, a social worker, decides to find out something about the problems of "hired Help/servant girls", and gets herself a job as a servant at the home of John Willman. Willman's son, Ake, falls in love with her and numerous complications arise before the course of true love runs smoothly. (imdb)