Vildhundarna is a drama far away from the Swedish reality. It's about four young people on the outermost, with norms dispersed, the only survivors in a nameless city, in a nameless country. Vildhundarna could take place in the former Yugoslavia, or why not Warszawa in 1944 or Rwanda...?
When the airline captain Curt Åhs comes home one day he discovers that his wife is unfaithful. Later he and the flight attendant Berit shares an adventure together during a flight to Rio De Janeiro.
Karl and Ada are engaged, Gustaf is a sailor and in love with Elsa. For her sake he's willing to stay ashore.
Julia works as a cashier at a piano factory in Stockholm. She and a couple friend go on a ski vacation to northern Sweden, while her boss at the piano factory notices there a money missing in cash register. He suspects Julia who have to prove her innocence.
Nisse Holm start marketing coffee made of tree cones.
An artist lives with his wife in a large house on the countryside. She is bored, longing to return to the city and her life as an actress. She leaves him. He falls in love with a young girl, not knowing that the girl is his wife's daughter.
A group of private soldiers arrives at the Service of the Air Defense. Some sweet army girls are located nearby.
Butcher Charles Svensson (Thor Modéen) bets on the horses and wins the jackpot. He finds high society is not immediately appreciative of the newly rich.
Edit Carlson is having trouble courting car mechanic Helge Malm, whose motto is "me mary? - never!", and when he reveals that he's about to receive an inheritance, Edit's sister Tora sets her sight on him as well.
Eva Cullberg (Annalisa Ericson) wants to sing in a cabaret the local military company are arranging. But her mother (Tollie Zellman) and father (Carl-Gunnar Wingård) won't let her, so she pretends to be the nanny of her sister's child. Along the way she falls in love with Lt. Mandell (Björn Berglund).
Claus, an unhappy 28 year old Norwegian insurance company employee quits his job in Oslo and heads for Sweden in order to figure out who he really is. In his travels he meets and falls in love with Liss, a liberated small town woman, but they both have trouble considering a long-term commitment which will curtail their treasured freedom. After separating, Claus heads north and joins a surveying team, where he finds himself attracted to a country girl. Will the big city boy settle down in the rugged wilds of the Northlands, or will he return to the south and negotiate a commitment to Liss.
The waitress Monica goes to Västerköping to find out who actually was her father. By aunt Margareta, she has been told that her mother, who died at birth, had four admirers.
The spoiled Marianne has switched cocktail parties to flight lessons.
"A Prisoner Has Escaped" - Franz is imprisoned for blowing up a factory. He escapes in order to prove his innocence.
About a love triangle between the soldiers 32 Svensson and 58 Jönsson and the girl Blenda. Both men ends up in jail, for different reasons. Further adventures and incidents occur.
Young Allan feed on petty crime and theft. He spice his life by scaring people with stolen dynamite.
It is in a battlefield in Karelia, Finland during the Continuation war (1941-1944). Intensive shooting between Finnish and Soviet troops takes place. The Soviet occupation is strong, and on the Finnish side it is ordered to withdraw. But Captain Viktor Aaltonen does not listen to the order but wants to shorten a wounded companion's suffering. Aaltonen is taken to the Soviet prison camp, Vorkuta, where he will spend a decade.
Anna is a poor girl who loves Erik, the son of a rich farmer. His parents are however determined to make Erik marry the rich Britta.
Privates 91 and 87 are ordered to carry a tube of explosive chemicals to a military depot, while prize fighter Ingemar Johansson tries to teach them how to throw a punch.
Bicycle factory director Wallensjö regularly fires his bookkeeper Gunnar, who has taken a liking to Wallensjös daughter Maj, and uses a baby left on hos brother's doorstep to trick Wallensjö into believing they've become parents.
