A young couple is in love, but Nina's father has seen another young man as her future man. It doesn't help when Nina's lover is convicted.

Year after year lord Wakefield comes to Vang to fish. One summer he meets beautiful Anne and falls in love. The following spring Anne gives birth to a daughter and leaves the baby and drown herself. The local man of the law takes care of the child and calls her Kristine Valdresdatter.

The city boy Rolf gets a job on a big farm, and soon lies about finding gold. We see the rise of gold fever while the corn rots away.

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?

In beautiful Telemark, a young boy grows up on a rich farm. To his fathers dislike, he wants to be a fiddle player, just like the son at the poorer neighboring farm. One day the father is found dead.