20世纪初，瑞典山区一个小业主的儿子与农场主女儿相爱，遭到女方和周遭环境的极力反对，青年克服重重困难，终于赢得美人归。影片以较为轻松的口吻调侃了有产阶级的怯懦和虚伪，与之成鲜明对比的是，代表生命和活力的小业主后代呈现出的果敢、爽朗、有魄力，所以影片不仅旨在赞扬美好爱情战胜世俗偏见的传统话题，更是对当时严重社会沟壑的裂痕提出质疑和反抗。影片画面清新干净，代表了北欧电影在默片时代不同的走向风格。

The farmer Knut Husaby has a daughter, Aslaug, who is the most beautiful girl in the village. Many boys are after her, but Knut and his two sons drive them away, if they come too close to the farm. Aslaug is secretly in love with Tore Naesset. But he is only a smallholder's son, and when he asks for Aslaug's hand, her father just laughs at him. Instead her father wants Aslaug to marry Ola Thormundson, a gawky boy, who is the son of the wealthiest farmer in the village. Aslaug brings her family's cattle to the Husaby summer farm up in the mountain. Only one road leads to the summer farm, and it passes right by the main farm. When Tore returns from a visit to Aslaug in the mountains, Knut and his sons beat him black and blue. As it's impossible for him to use the road anymore, Tore has to figure out another way to go to Aslaug. Next Saturday he crosses the fiord in a rowing-boat. He stops at a fifty meter high wall of rock, and starts climbing it, hoping to reach Aslaug at the top.

I en liten landsby i fjellene er alle guttene forelsket i Aslaug, datteren til den rike bonden Knut Husaby. Thormund, den mest velstående bonden i landsbyen foreslår at sønnen, Ola, skal gifte seg med Aslaug. Husaby er for dette ekteskapet, men spør datteren om hun er enig. Aslaug nekter, fordi hun er forelsket i Tore Næsset, en husmannssønn. Hennes far er sterkt imot et slikt bryllup og sender henne til setra, høyt oppe i fjellet, og håper at hun skal endre syn.