Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
Victor Sjöström
Bibi Andersson
Ingrid Thulin
Gunnar Björnstrand
Jullan Kindahl
Folke Sundquist
Björn Bjelfvenstam
Naima Wifstrand
Gunnel Broström
Gertrud Fridh
Sif Ruud
Gunnar Sjöberg
Max von Sydow
Åke Fridell
Yngve Nordwall
Per Sjöstrand
Gio Petré
Gunnel Lindblom
Maud Hansson
Ann-Marie Wiman
Eva Norée
Lena Bergman
Monica Ehrling
Per Skogsberg
Göran Lundquist
Helge Wulff
Peder Hellman
Vendela Rudbäck
Ulf Johansson
Erik Nordgren
Josef Norman
Gunnar Olsson
Harry Asklund