Sailor Johannes Blom returns to his home port, after seven years at sea, to find that Sally, the girl he has been thinking of while away, is completely despondent. Seven years earlier, obstreperous Alexander Blom, brings his mistress Sally to live with him, his wife Alice, son Johannes, and crew, aboard the salvage boa…

艾伯特（Åke Grönberg 饰）的全部身家性命都赌在了自己苦心经营的马戏团上面了，尽管生意日益惨淡，但他并没有产生放弃的念头，他决定用一场盛大的演出来振奋团里的士气。带着自己的情人安妮（哈里特·安德森 Harriet Andersson 饰），艾伯特来到了一个名叫舒伯格（甘纳尔·布耶恩施特兰德 Gunnar Björnstrand 饰）的男人处，希望能…