In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one's foot down – or failing to do so – are explored.
A successful stockbroker gets in trouble and has to escape from Hamburg in Germany to Vänersborg in Sweden with his two children.
The year is 1984. It's summer, and the rebellious 12-year-old girl Kid wants to stay in Gothenburg, but her mother has other plans. Kid discovers that summer vacation in Finland isn't as bad as first feared. In a few hot weeks she discovers her dawning sexuality, and experience her first crush.
16-year-old girls Alma and Bea had managed to lure the middle-aged football coach Carl into a changing room at the football club. They got him where they wanted. He wanted to see them naked. They wanted to see him suffer. They shouldn’t have done that, or should they?
15-year-old Ida lives with her mother in Rossö in the Strömstad archipelago. Over the course of three stormy days, her life is turned upside down. She has a strained relationship with her mother, a non-existent relationship with her father and is let down by her best friend. —Maria Eriksson
A girl and a boy. They have a relationship. One morning they face inevitable questions. Do you have to be in love with the person you have a relationship with? And how do you really know if you are in love or not? About love and closeness, and how easy they are to confuse.
Gothenburg 1999. Three friends, with Mickan in the lead, are at a party. About friendship, obligations, betrayal and norms.