The second in a series of narratives about Bergman's childhood and family. The setting is the summerhouse of Bergman's maternal grandmother. The time is 1926 and the main character, an 8-year-old boy, nicknamed Pu, is waiting at the train station for his father to arrive from Stockholm. The dramatic tension is provided by the priest, Erik Bergman, and his mother-in-law, Anna Akerblom.

Pu's life revolves around playing with the neighbourhood children, watching happenings on the farm and listening to the maid's stories. He witnesses an argument between his parents when Karin Bergman informs her husband she plans to leave him, take the children and resume her nursing career. Erik goes outside and Pu follows him. He is asked, by his father to go with him to a neighbouring church the next day. They are to take a train and complete the journey by bike. He hesitates as he has other plans. A flash forward takes us to 1968 where his father is a crippled 82 year-old widower, lonely and afraid of approaching death. A second flash-forward to 1970 shows us Erik Bergman dying, with his son Ingmar seeing him as a stranger. The narration continues with Pu's bike trip with his father who is going to preach at Granas. In the church Pu stares at the murals reminiscent of motifs in Bergman's film, "The Seventh Seal". On the way home Pu and his father go swimming but are surprised by a sudden thunderstorm. They have a minor accident with the bike and the story ends as they walk, pushing the bike, towards the station.