Erik Lundqvist

Eskil déménage de ville en ville avec son père dans le nord de la Suède. Il manque à sa mère et craint de jouer au hockey, l'activité principale des garçons de son âge. Les choses changent quand il rencontre Trinidad, une femme mystérieuse qui vit hors de la société et passe son temps à construire un grand navire qui pourrait peut-être emmener Eskil chez sa mère ...

Four outsiders of three generations band together in a sweet and funny paean to non-conformism. After her husband's death, elderly Frida comes to know her introverted, friendless adult granddaughter, Lou, from whom she had long been kept apart by Frida's estranged daughter. Frida invites another misfit into her household: 10-year-old Tom, who welcomes the chance to spend time away from both his home and his bullying classmates. Meanwhile, Lou reluctantly gets drawn into a friendship with secondhand bookseller Henrik. A dry comedy of great charm and warmth.

The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden.