At the Café René in the small French commune of Nouvion everything is as usual. Chaos. René himself is trying to keep a straight face in a dangerous game. Of course he has to stay on the good side of the Germans in order to not get in trouble. He also has to do the same thing with his wife Edith for the same reason. For completely different reasons he stays on the good side of his waitresses Mimi and Yvette. At least when Edith isn't around.
In 1930s Sweden the residents of a small town are upset with the morals of modern times and travel to Copenhagen to see for themselves what is going on with this new jazz music.
Boring office worker Magda Munter is having a hard time seducing her boss' son until a false rumour starts spreading about her having had an affair with Frank Sinatra in her youth.
It's the 1960s and the local bandstand is in dire straits economically. Nancy the consultant shows up and attempts to get the business running smoothly again.
The year is 1925. Mölle is the fashionable tourist destination for people of a certain class. Ladies with shingled hair, men in straw hats and white suits. At the popular guest house Summer Lust the uptight but lovesick Beda rules with an iron fist. To help her she has a lot of very good personell... and Siri. Siri works as a bartender, is obsessed with movies and not very interested in helping the guests.
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.
The wealthy Pantalone (Ulf Brunnberg) and Doctor Lombardi (Ewa Roos) have just witnessed the engagement between their children. Then an unusually cheeky figure pops up and throws all plans. She calls herself Truffaldina (Eva Rydberg) and seems free from what respect and label is called. Since an accident rarely comes alone, Rasponi now also enters the action and addresses all common concepts of the perishability of life. And it will not be less difficult when a gentleman from Torino, named Florindo, arrives at Venice and enters the same inn as Rasponi. Now it is for Brighella's innkeeper to take the vagina in beautiful hand and keep my good in bad play.
