The year is 1927 the place is Kalmar and family Grossman's home. The hungover industrialist Julius Grossman (Peter Dalle) and his wife Solveig (Suzanne Reuter) are waiting in the home of her daughter Betty to come by train from Stockholm. To their great surprise, she comes in an automobile together with her suitor Greger, and she seems to be full of future trends and modern ideas about marriage, among others. Her father Julius would rather that she marries his partner Hilding (Robert Gustafsson) and thus retain control of the company. Hilding is a gray, slightly dull and slightly over-aged bachelor who suddenly becomes all womens dream prince when a rumor starts circulating that in his youth he had a relationship with the famous film star Rita Ray.