Business lawyer Max Falin, son of Stockholm tycoon Olaf, is about to marry Hilla Svensson, heir of grandmother Emma Svensson's cartographic publishing firm. On the family estate to plan the wedding, Hilla meets Emma's secretary-butler Christian's adventurous orphaned great nephew Fredrik, a commercial navy officer she knew as a child, and the soon grow into an affair, to Emma's snobbish horror. Christian is torn between conflicting loyalties, Emma hides her major medical problems dictating haste with the succession even for him and Hilla.
—KGF Vissers