During a night at the big department store a gang of thieves are active, while the CMO is staging a pr coup to increase sales of swimsuits. The clerk Ann Marie and CEO's son Erik, manages to catch the thieves and then spend the night in the store dining and dancing.
When the mine is closing down in the small community of Vestköping the town bank is also in danger. Sudden news of the return of one of the town's inhabitants who had emigrated to the USA and is said to be very wealthy improves spirits of everyone.
One day, a theater company to Iron Creek. In the city's steel mills meet the young actress Monika young Erik. The love between them is from the very clear but complicated by the fact both have careers.
Director Hugo Berner and Doctor Olof Mellgren have come out of the theater where they have just shown the classic play Pygmalion. Director Mellgren claims that, like Higgins in the play, he can turn a harbor worker into the gentleman.
The well-known musician and composer Åke Kjellberg wakes up in a nice Stockholm apartment. He lives in Count Sparvhök's empty home until it gets rented out.
Industrial development and social decay in a small Swedish town leads to unemployment and unrest. Families are forced to move to where work is available. Young workers are protesting.
