16-year old Jonna live with her father in an apartment somewhere in Södermanland. Their next-door neighbor Mona make frequent visits to them, as well as Frank's best friend Lennart. In the nearby corner shop works Jonna's friend Simon.
Behind the scenes of six of the greatest Swedish cultural upsets of our time. When the media storm blows hardest, it can be difficult to see what the core of the discussion really is and why the event has become so infected.
Flickan vid stenbänken is a Swedish 1989 TV series in nine episodes directed by Marianne Ahrne starring Anna Edlund, Anna Björk and Lena T. Hansson. The series was based on Maria Gripe's books Skuggan över stenbänken, ...och de vita skuggorna i skogen and Skuggornas barn.
Ratio Rasch, the president of planet Gyllenblå, has banned laughter and emotions in order to create a society based on reason. Police are constantly patrolling the planet and anyone caught laughing is imprisoned and given anti-laughter serum. Only a few members of an underground guerrilla oppose the president. On Earth, the eccentric Dr. Krull listens to signals from outer space and realizes that something needs to be done so he sends the two children Cecilie and Fredrik to Gyllenblå. Epicykel, a guerrilla member, senses their presence and hopes to get to them first but fails. The children are put in school, where Fredrik has great difficulty controlling his laughter but Cecilie adapts well. The guerrilla knows that laughter is contagious and Fredrik gives them new hope of returning laughter to the people of Gyllenblå.
Ragnar works in an office. He turns 33 in May, and he has 45 in shoes. Ragnar has a vivid imagination. The more he thinks, the younger he wants to be. He thinks it would be good if he were ten years or maybe only seven. Then he would be out playing now. Usually Ragnar think when he sits in his office. He is actually the man who does not want to grow up, or become a grown-up.