An intense love affair develops between a married concert violinist (Gösta Ekman) and his daughter’s music teacher (Ingrid Bergman).

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

Christmas 1945. In a train from Stockholm to Berlin are a motley collection. It is the failure of the author Gunnar who wants to leave his old life and make…