Young Stinne cleans a small theater. She has a very ordinary life and not much unexpected happens in her life. Until she finds out that she has a serious illness and has very little time left to live in. Stinne first continues her life as she usually does and meets at work the next day. But she begins to fear that she will be forgotten after her death.

Oscar and Josefine are celebrating Midsummer with Oscar's grandparents in the country. A demon, Thorsen, gives Josefine the gift of enabling her to travel back in time. Visiting Oscar's family in the 17th century, Josefine saves a sickly young girl from the stake. But now the villagers see Josefine as a witch and want to burn her at the stake instead.

Three siblings ingeniously avoid being sent off to a children's home while their solo-mother serves a short sentence in a prison for shoplifting. Rather than have the news leak out and have to be escorted off with the eccentric welfare officer, they invent a 'never present' dad who is looking after them.