Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.

一家人在斯德哥尔摩群岛的避暑别墅中。两个女儿幻想自己是成年人，代表着不同的颜色——红色、黄色、蓝色、绿色、紫色、黑色和靛蓝色。