- A group of people arrives by boat to attend a party on a small island. They experience great difficulties while trying to go ashore. All the alcohol for the party is on the boat while the people on the island have all the food, and the only neighbor on the island, Garbo, is not as friendly as one would wish.
- The whodunit author Peter Sander runs out of gas on a stormy night and soon gets entangled in his own real-life murder mystery. With the aid of the precocious young boy John Lindberg, he sets out to discover who killed the elderly hermit and left him in an abandoned farm house.