Dir.: Kjell-Åke Andersson; Script: Kjell Sundstedt, Kjell-Åke Andersson D'après le roman/Based on the novel by: Göran Tunström; Phot.: Harald Paalgard; Ed.: Darek Hodor; Mus.: Stefan Nilsson; Cast: Peter Haber, Johan Widerberg, Henrik Linnros, Lena Endre, Viveka Seldahl, Fiona Mogridge, Krsiter Henriksson, Sif Ruud; Prod.: Katinka Faragó, Anita Hallgren, Sandrew Film, Box 5612, 11486 Stockholm (Suède), tél.: 46 8 234 700, fax: 46 8 103 850 / Swedish Television TV2 Göteborg, 40513 Göteborg (Suède), tél.: 46 31 837 000, fax: 46 31; Sales: Lena Enquist, Swedish Film Institute, Box 27126, 10252 Stockholm (Suède), tél.: 46 8 665 1100, fax: 46 8 661 1820 .

Three generations in the life of a family from the Värmland province of Sweden. The story begins in the present with Victor reading letters from the father he hasn't seen since he was a child. The letters recall a tragic incident 60 years earlier... On a lovely summer's day in the '30s, young Solveig is riding her bike to a remote village church to rehearse the Christmas Oratorio. It is her dream to perform Bach's masterpiece in this simple rural environment, and bring people closer together. But Solveig has an accident on her way to church and her dream dies with her. Her grieving husband Aron and their two children, Sidner and Eva-Lisa, move to town. In his grief, Aron neglects the children, but through shortwave radio he begins a relationship with Tessa, a woman in New Zealand, and she becomes his reason to live. Sidner, meanwhile, grows up, making friends among the town's eccentrics, including Selma Lagerlöf, the writer who went on to win a Nobel Prize. He meets and falls in love with an older woman, Fanny. They have a son, Victor. Aron, however, leaves everything behind in his quest for love. He sets off on a very long journey in the desperate hope of rediscovering his late wife in the person of Tessa. The years pass, until, one pleasant autumn day, Solveig's dream at last comes true... "A sad and beautiful story of the power of love... Kjell-Åke Andersson has succeeded in maintaining the basic elements and characters (of Göran Tunström's bestselling novel) and made their stories moving and affecting." -- Gunnar Rehlin (Variety)