Ingmar Bergman's comedy romance sees three women at a summer house, awaiting the arrival of their husbands, entertaining each other with tales from their marriages - Anita Björk tells of her bathhouse cavortings with her lover Jarl Kulle, only to be discovered by her husband; Maj-Britt Nilsson tells of her marriage to Parisian artist Birger Malmsten, whose family object to her and Eva Dahlbeck tells how she revived her fading marriage in a lift with husband Gunnar Björnstrand.