Carl-Sebastian Urse, called Mon Cousin, makes in 1937 a visit to his native place Hedeby. His cousin, the baron Carl Gustaf Urse, still runs the family estate Valla, but is in financial difficulties. He has to borrow money from the bank as well as from the local farmer Lille-Lars, and now there is a wildcat strike at his lime-works as well. His wife, the baroness Louise Urse, is an alcoholic. To get some relief from his financial and matrimonial problems Carl Gustaf spends his spare time chasing young women. At the moment his desire is focused on Märta Svensson, the daughter of an odd-job man, Sixten Svensson. In the village the local policeman is occupied by chasing bootleggers. Being an alcoholic himself he is not very successful in this. An attempt to arrest the shopkeeper ends in the policeman being carried away on a wheel-barrow, totally drunk.
—Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se}