A tragicomic story about the middle-aged Agneta who is a clerk at the big department store. She is dreaming of a perfect and happy family life but is in fact lonely and oppressed by her mother. The women at work do not see through Agneta but enviously admire her happiness.
A Swedish IT-company gets a new boss, who turns out to be a soulless hatchet man in Schildt's dark satire on the evils of the corporate world. He's opposed by Daniel, one of his employees, and eventually comes crashing down, impaled on his own hubris. So Daniel gets given the poisoned chalice of leadership in his place, just to end up as amoral and platitudinous as the man and values he initially stood up against.
Two siblings, Ebba and Didrik, live in small society by the sea. An ordinary family with usual struggles. They're looking for love in different ways, but it's easier said than done.
