Limpan is an alcoholic who has been put into a caretaking home for alcoholics. He's promised a job on the 'outside', but he's not released from the home, so he runs away. He misses the job and gets caught and is brought back, but they won't accept him, since it's after closing time. During a couple of days, he wanders back and forth between the home and the world, meeting several different people who all have their different problems, which Limpan confronts and all the time, there's the question of alcohol; to drink or not to drink.
The White Rose (Kalle, Eva-Lotta and Anders) and the Red Rose (Sixten, Benka and Jonte) gangs are battling for a magical stone. The rest of the time Kalle is bored. That is why Kalle and his friends play pranks on Kalles aunts Hilda and Hulda. While Hulda is laughing, Hilda is very angry and calls the police, but Kalle is able to escape. Only a few time later Hilda is kidnapped and the kidnappers want a lot of money. The gangs of the White and Red Rose are now working together to find the kidnappers.
Rikard Adamsson, a young man dreaming of becoming a writer, lives a wild and dissolute bohemian life. A ferocious fighter with a heart of gold and a great taste for women. In the military service he gets in trouble, runs away, returns and is sentenced to prison. Inside he finishes his first novel. However, no publisher is interested.