This morality play is set during midsummer. Mrs Astrom, an old woman, tells five people they will die the following day. One is Jenny, a business woman, at one time married to Robert van Hijn, a name that suggests the Devil in Swedish; another, Finger-Pella, a homosexual beauty consultant who is terrified of dying and Peter an actor who entertains the others with a puppet show of "Everyman".

A rational explanation is found for Mrs. Astrom's morbid prediction; she is an hallucinating alcoholic, escaped from an institution. In the final scene she appears with the five people who have indeed died and live in a great void. The play ends with Jenny's pray to an unresponsive deity, reminiscent of the Knight's prayer in "The Seventh Seal".