
Before World War II, Swedish workers had to deal with low wages, scarce work, and the extensive importation of foreign labor, particularly for the purpose of breaking strikes. This did not make foreigners of any stripe very popular, and those from "guest worker" countries were particularly disliked. In this film, set in 1938, a half-Polish boy goes to Poland in search of his mother, runs into financial and psychological difficulties there, and is sent back to a Swedish mental hospital. In another story, an unfortunate woman suffers a miscarriage and ends up at the asylum where the Polish boy is being kept.
Directed by Jösta Hagelbäck
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Cast

Anders Åberg
Eije Ström
Gerissa Jalander
Mother
Bo Lindström
Albin Ström

Tomas Norström
Farmhand

Emy Storm
Gerda
Jan Dolata
The Pimp's helper

Jan Jönsson
Madman at St. Lars
Anne-Lie Kinnunen
Singer at Tavern

Gisela von Matuska
Woman at the Polish Church
Urszula Repinska
Tavern guest
Bill Salo
Accordion player
Renata Orlik
Waitress

Richard Hobert
Farmhand
Roman Nowak
Priest
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