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With the exception of his elderly housekeeper Miss Agda who he treats almost like a surrogate platonic wife, widowed seventy-eight year old Dr. Isak Borg, a former medical doctor and professor, has retreated from any human contact, partly his own want but partly the decision of others who do not want to spend time with him because of his cold demeanor. He is traveling from his home in Stockholm to Lund to accept an honorary degree. Instead of flying as was the original plan, he decides to take the day long drive instead. Along for the ride is his daughter-in-law Marianne, who had been staying with him for the month but has now decided to go home. The many stops and encounters along the way make him reminisce about various parts of his life. Those stops which make him reminisce directly are at his childhood summer home, at the home of his equally emotionally cold mother, and at a gas station where the attendants praise him as a man for his work. But the lives of other people they encounter almost mirror his own, including hitchhikers Sara, Viktor and Anders - who remind him of his cousin Sara who he was going to marry, himself and his irresponsible brother Sigfrid who Sara eventually married - a bickering married couple Sten and Berit Alman, and Marianne and her husband and Isaks son Evald, whose marriage is as strained as was his own.
Dr. Isak Borg, now 78 years old, is traveling by car to Lund to receive an honorary degree at Lund cathedral. Hes traveling with his daughter-in-law Marianne, who is married to his son Evald. Isak now lives a lonely life which, by his own admission, is partly his own fault having consciously withdrawn from most social interaction. Along the way he stops at his familys summer home where he spent time during the first 20 years of his life. Its the place where the wild strawberries grow and he recalls his beautiful cousin Sara to whom he was secretly engaged until his brother Sigfrid snatches her away. They give a ride to several people along the way including a girl - also named Sara - and her two friends along with a married couple who almost ran them off the road. Borgs reminiscences and disturbing dreams add to his melancholy as he questions some of the decisions he has made in his life.
Victor Sjöström
Dr. Eberhard Isak Borg
Bibi Andersson
Sara
Ingrid Thulin
Marianne Borg
Gunnar Björnstrand
Dr. Evald Borg
Jullan Kindahl
Agda
Folke Sundquist
Anders
Björn Bjelfvenstam
Viktor
Naima Wifstrand
Mrs. Borg - Isak's Mother
Gunnel Broström
Berit Alman
Gertrud Fridh
Karin Borg - Isak's wife
Sif Ruud
Aunt Olga
Gunnar Sjöberg
Sten Alman
Max von Sydow
Henrik Åkerman
Åke Fridell
Karin's Lover
Yngve Nordwall
Uncle Aron
Per Sjöstrand
Sigfrid Borg
Gio Petré
Sigbritt Borg
Gunnel Lindblom
Charlotta Borg
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