Samuel is the primary carer for his father - a paranoid schizophrenic. A chance encounter with a young woman disrupts their carefully constructed world and leads Samuel to question the kind of man that he would like to be.

The film depicts a young woman's first task as a homemade. The task is to help a disabled man with a toilet and dressing

Harry Lund is having a bad day. First he gets fired. And then loses his entire fortune at an illegal gambling club. On his way out, he is assaulted and drugged by unknown men, and wakes up in a car with another man. A very dead man. A very murdered man. And Harry's penknife sticks out of his body. Harry flees in panic to Stockholm. And now not only the bad guys are close on his heels - but also the police...

It's the early 1950s and Sparvöga's father has lost his job and is suffering from tuberculosis. The whole family is forced to move back in with his parents but for Sparvöga this is the beginning of a great adventure.