Widowed Gunhild has two daughters, and one of them, Ragnhild has fallen in love with poor boy Asmund, to her mother's dislike.

A love triangle of two men who desire the same woman. We follow them through three days of grouse hunting, a chase that ends violently. Or does it?

Aase lives together with her old grandfather above the city, and she dreams of going away. Kaare is in love with her, but her dreams seem to come...

Hans Nielsen Hauge was a Norwegian reformer in the early 1800's both financially and spiritually.