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Description
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An idyllic street on Söder in Stockholm. On the one hand low detached houses with high planks, on the other side functional high-rise apartment buildings. A very mixed male choir sings languorous ballads conducted by tailor Ludde Ask. Among the singers are shoemaker Jerker Karlsson, postman Nils Klöver, policeman Ernst Fast and some older former sports idols. All are passive members of the sports club Apollo. Opposite the idyllic huts on one floor of the funky house, we meet the Swedish-American Morton and his servant Johan. Morton always stays indoors. Now he disapproves of all the singing and shouts "Stop the noise!" Jqhan closes the window. Tailor Ludde is the place's optimist. Shoemaker Jerker its pessimist. It's late in the evening and Jerker paws home to his wife Kristina and Ludde to his Laura. The latter quarrels with her husband, whom she holds under the slipper. They have three children, the oldest is Greta, a clerk at a car company. She is courted by builder Norling's son Henrik, which her father disapproves of. Laura and Kristina go to the same realization the next day, which means that Jerker can offer Ludde a coffee box. Laura usually locks in the liquor, but this time she forgot to take the key with her. At the realization, we see how the ladies pull the pieces. A Mrs. Mallander puts down her outer coat and Kristina, who thinks it's for sale, tries it on. Jerker tells Ludde that he needs to do his business better. Ludde has high mortgages on her house and does not handle the repayments to Norling and lags behind with the store rent to Morton. While they are drinking coffee, a threatening letter arrives from Norling in which Ludde is threatened with a lawsuit if he does not pay six percent on the mortgages immediately. In the large car park, we find Henrik Norling with a customer who is considering buying a car. Henrik then invites Greta to dinner and talks about how he trains boxing at the club. Morton discusses with builder Norling the lack of land. Houses that Ludde and Jerker live in should be demolished and apartment buildings built instead. Norling says that Ludde's plot will soon be vacant, he will cancel the mortgage. Down the street, the children kick the ball and Kalle happens to kick the ball through Morton's window. He is told by the officer to go and talk to Morton. The latter turns out to be crippled after a car accident and can not walk. Kalle and Morton have a sympathetic tone in the conversation and Kalle gets a penny. Norling comes to Ludde with the mortgages. He will not have to pay if he moves out within six months. Ludde signs a consent but does not write the date, so Norling fiddles with the paper and dated it six months earlier, which means that he can ask Ludde to move the same month. Henrik proposes to Greta who says no. She becomes more interested in Jerker's eldest son Arne who comes home after several years abroad. The sports association Apollo holds a meeting where Jerker praises the comradely spirit sports donates. At the car company, Henrik is fired when he is not efficient enough. The boss asks Greta to try her hand at sales. She succeeds well and becomes Stockholm's first female car saleswoman. At the club there will be a boxing match for amateurs. Henrik and Arne bump into each other and can then get an outlet for their rivalry about Greta. Arne wins. Ludde's mortgages are officially canceled and he must manage SEK 15,000 in order not to be evicted. The neighbors collect 5,500, which Norling refuses to accept as a partial payment, he also refuses to give a deferral. The people of the South beat him up in a great noise, which Morton hears from his window. The officer reports to him what happened and does so with such compassion for Ludde that Morton is converted. He takes care of the mortgage and gives Ludde a respite. Furthermore, he participates in the celebration of Ludde's birthday, where there is a lot of toasting and singing even more. Morton says: - Now I no longer feel alone but as among good friends and loyal neighbors. (http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=film&itemid=3869#plot-summary)
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