Based on the poems by finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the movie centers on the Finnish War between Russia and Sweden in 1808.
A hotel in Surabaya, Java has some features of a brothel. Anita plays in a women's orchestra is exposed to the bandleaders invites. The owner of the hotel wants Anita to attract customers. They two become rivals over Anita.
Catherine defies her strict father and accompanies a traveling theater company. Her father picks up the daughter and as a punishment he sends her to a priest farm in the countryside.
