To be able to get an honorary degree, retired doctor Isak Borg journeys from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, together along with his unhappy and pregnant daughterinlaw, Marianne. On the waythey encounter a string of hitch-hikers, all whom causes the senior doctor to muse upon failures and the joys of his own life. Included in these are the lively Saraa dead ringer for a physician's own first love.