在20世纪的初始，传奇人物乔希尔与他的兄弟一起移民到美国。在美国各地的转辗让他与自己的兄弟失去了音信。乔独自在美国生活，打过许多份工，见到劳苦大众受到一直以来的不公正待遇和持续发生的惨剧，乔被深深触动。他加入IWW组织，一个倡导为劳动人民赢得公义和拒绝再忍受惨剧发生的联 盟，乔逐渐成为这个地下联盟的积极分子四处活动。不幸的是，这个联盟引起政府注意遭到禁止，无法在公共场合进行理念宣传和演讲，聪明的乔想到采用歌唱的方式将救世军（救世军（TheSalvationArmy）是一个于1865年成立，以军队形式作为其架构和行政方针，并以基督教作为信仰基本的国际性宗教及慈善公益组织，以街头布道和慈善活动、社会服务著称。）的宣传单内容传播到渴望解救的大众脑海里。他成功地获得了越来越多人的罢工支持，同时也树立了强大的敌人采取措施加以陷害。最终，被陷入一场谋杀案当中，在面对来自黑暗势力的审判，他毅然辞掉了指派的律师，以正义作武器为自己辩护来击败丑恶。

Some people might claim that Den vita sporten (The White Match/Sport) is dated. Others might claim that the film too closely bound with the whole 1968 student movement, the new left, the student uproar. And some might consider it as mere propaganda. This phenomenal film is all of the above – and that's why it's such a shocker.
The question the filmmakers wishes to explore is if sports and politics don't mix, with the Davis Cup tennis matches between Sweden and Rhodesia as a backdrop. Of course the answer is already given – sports are politics as much as anything that goes down in society as a whole. Naturally, politicians and sports organizers disagree, but a regular but diverse army consisting of angry students, self-righteous liberals and crazed fanatical Maoists set their course toward the small beach resort Båstad. Here, things go really ugly as the demonstrators are determined to stop the match at any cost.
And Den vita sporten is really down there in the crowds - literally – as the water cannons starts squirting and Mao's little red books is waved in frantic aggression. It's got a direct, fist-in-the-crotch approach, with youth frustration sprawling from within and between the frames... you could almost touch this presence when Bo Widerberg, Roy Andersson and the other directors and producers in the collective Grupp 13 charges the local police, rocker gangs, racist Rhodesian thugs, lazy power-high politicians and conformist working and middle class locals.
This film is not just a film that documents a riot between leftist students and the police in Båstad – this is the closest thing anyone got in making a documentary about the Paris near-revolution in '68. That is truly revolutionary.
Documentary film directed by the film collective Grupp 13 consisting of Roy Andersson, Kalle Boman, Lena Ewert, Sven Fahlén, Staffan Hedqvist, Axel Rudorf-Lohmann, Lennart Malmer, Björn Öberg, Jörgen Persson, Ingela Romare, Inge Roos, Rudi Spee, and Bo Widerberg (Roy Anderesson inleder Den vita sporten article on the site of the Swedish Film Institute).

The family happiness of the Ekdahls is driven towards a tragic disintegration.