Sweden in the 1780s. At the court the nobility lords and ladies dance, love, intrigue and compete for the King's favor. To this Stockholm arrives Rutger Macklean, nobleman and an officer. With a notion of an extensive re-organisation of the agricultural lands and the farm properties.

Henric Holmberg
as Rutger Macklean

Gösta Ekman
as King Gustaf III

Marcus Groth
as Gustav Mauritz Armfelt

Anette Bjärlestam
as Sara

Maria Eriksson-Hecht
as Queen Sofia Albertina

Lasse Pöysti
as Carl August Ehrensvärd

Ernst Günther
as Holmström

Anders Beckman
as Gustav Macklean

Lehman Benson
as Badin

Michael Segerström
as Amelin, the priest