The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.
Olavi, a farmer's son, leaves his home after a dispute with his father and leads a life of a womanizing logger.
A young woman is forced into an arranged marriage by her family in hopes of securing their future, but her husband turns out to be an alcoholic brute of a man and she longs for the man she truly loves.