A 16-year-old boy grows up in the '60s, experimenting with life, sex, drugs and alcohol.

Viveca is 31, divorced, and has a son of 6 years. She and her friend Aud have left the hectic everyday life and moved in with bohemians and artists. We follow these two women for five days, as they come in contact with many different people.

Lasse & Geir, two suburban boys in their late teens, kick up a row on the bus into town, making the driver call the police. They get arrested and have to spend the night in jail. The next morning they are sent home - Geir to his alcoholic mother, Lasse to his disillusioned and abusive father.

The film is about Jucan, known throughout the country as a fakir, movie hero, and the man who plays the harmonica. The actual plot of the film is that Bredo Greve seeks out Jucan to learn how to live like him.