It's 1923 at Fredriksdal manor and the widow Julia Sjölin is in the middle of her daughter Ofelia's wedding to lieutenant Rosencrona.
It's Saturday night at an old Hospital in Helsingborg. Karin Bellman is a bit forgetful and has been admitted with an injury to her arm. Her husband is by her side and introduces himself as doctor in theology but in the weekend stress he is mistaken for a doctor in the hospital and is put to work.