Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king’s skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal…

A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.

Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik’s heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway….