On a farm in east-Norway lives Jonas Værn. He befriends a traveling finn Ahti who tells about his lost love and the man that took it from him. Ahti is later accused of murdering that fellow traveler....

Iver loses his Romani-parents in an avalanche, and gets adopted by farmer Sjur. Years later, his background comes back to cause trouble in his personal life.

Liv's father is sentenced to 6 years in prison after killing a traveling man visiting with his wife and young son. They afterward move away, but a mysterious young man turns up. Could he be out for revenge?

The poor but skilled woodcutter Simen is conned by the rich Pikajord. Simen's answer is to reenact his own death through disappearance, and come back as a ghost. But then his attractive wife looks like a widow.

Finn Ek has a lover, Monica. When his wife Cecilia finds out, she is devastated and leaves town.