When Elisabeth and her family arrive, Goran is struggling with maintaining his insanity inside an open relationship with Lena, who is so open that she reveals she has experienced her first orgasm with her house mate, Erik, to Goran. Adding to the shock of their parents' break up, Elisabeth's children, Stefan and Eva enter the house upon a naked argument between the recently divorced, Lasse and Anna. Having recently coming to the realization that she is a lesbian, Anna is quick to take an interest in Elizabeth, while Lasse is half-assedly rejecting the same-sex advances of Klasse (both of whom are men, if that is not obvious by the Swedish names).
Tet, son of Anna and Lasse, takes to Stefan with interest, since he is the only male child in the house. Stefan quickly introduces Tet to war games and meat, which are both forbidden in the house. These disruptions turn out to be the last straw for the already frustrated couple, Signe and Sigvarde, parents of the other child in the house, Måne.
Elisabeth's other child, Eva, meanwhile is struggling with the usual insecurities of any thirteen year old, on top of the added stress of living amongst hippies. However she attracts the attention of a neighborhood boy, Fredrik, whose parents strongly despise their open-minded neighbors. However, Fredrik longs for human connection that his sexually frustrated mother and father will not provide. He develops a clumsy courtship of Eva, but struggles to solidify it, when the ever-promiscuous and perpetually drunk, Lena titillates him.
The childrens' father, Rolf, makes several inept and drunken attempts to win his family back, but finally turns a corner when he takes the advice of the divorced and lonely, Birger, who hopes to help Rolf to avoid his life's mistakes.
Despite any feelings of repulsion by male frontal nudity, I just found this ultimately optimistic film enthralling. The relationships that form in this film are all out of a need for human connection and they fulfill that need so well that it is difficult to quibble over the morality of them all. In the end this film simply warmed my heart and depicted the unique struggles and avail of communal living that fascinate me so much.