Un travailleur pauvre de la campagne se rend à Stockholm, en pleine expansion, et y entame une nouvelle vie semée d'embûches. D'après le livre de Per Anders Fogelström.
"I Will Become Sweden's Rembrandt or Die!" - About the life and art of the Swedish painter Ernst Josephson (1851-1906), his many travels in Europe and about the psychological crisis in 1885 which changed Josephson's artistry completely.