Solsting och snésprång

The miserable and lazy farmer Nils-Erik likes it that his wife Matilda rules and dictates, but cannot come to terms with the fact that she constantly falls for the flattery of their neighbor Valdemar. Their son Lennart has inherited the mother's touchiness and the father's laziness and feels like a failure. Then Nils-Erik gets an idea! But is it wise to involve the local postman Dag-Otto in his plans?

A year has passed since Matilda Karlsson arranged a job in the city for her son Lennart and managed to persuade her late husband Nils-Erik to take care of the farm. Everything is fine except for one thing, Matilda wants grandchildren. Lennart and the neighbor's daughter Inga get along well so she thinks they would make a perfect couple. But there are many obstacles along the way.

In the forests of Halland lies an old car workshop run by a dysfunctional raggar family.

The year is 1949 and we are back at Matilda and Nils-Erik's farm. Their son Lennart and his wife Rakel are planning to take over the farm after his parents.

The brothers Ingmar and Gustav Nilsson are running a motel and a shop where everything from car tires to fish nets can be bought. They're very unsuccessful, and Ingmar wants to sell the place, but Gustav doesn't. One day the municipality wants to buy their business buildings, but they refuse to tell why until they've bought it. Meanwhile, Ingmar wants to hire a woman that he can fall in love with and Lufsen, a dizzy craftsman, is trying to fix some sewage pipes in the kitchen. Written by J. Rieper

Lisa is in middle age and married to Bertil. Yesterday she celebrated a step up in his career with the girls at the hotel in town. In which "happened" Lisa to have a hot love meeting with a younger man in the hotel's spa area. Meanwhile, Lisa's sister is on the way to proudly show off her new found young man. He was also staying at the hotel last night. Was it him? The friend and closest neighbor, Gerd, a gray, miserable and unemployed, single girl, wondering where Lisa stubbornly went yesterday? Panic begins to spread, the sister is coming. What should Lisa do? Does Bertil suspect anything? Will Gerd back her up or is she up to something else?

The action takes place around the Ingeborg's cafe. The councilor Leif Aronsson has planned a trip to Denmark, but it must be set after he had a brief discussion on money fiddling with Ingeborg. He suspects that one will discover he has taken money from the city budget in their own pocket.

Ragnar and Folke are upset about the reporting about their village in the local radio show.