Emile of Lehneberia is the naughtiest boy in Sweden, and perhaps in the whole world. He does more mischief than the days of the year. Instead of a flag he raises his sister Ida, falls from stilts into Mrs. Petrel's soup, drinks the pig and the chickens... but when on a terrible winter night no one dares to take Alfred the sick to the doctor, Emile He harnesses the sleigh and goes against the blizzard alone.