Veronica is 30 years old when she disappears. At home in the apartment in Högsbo in Gothenburg, 3-year-old Marcus is waiting for his mother. Today Marcus is 22 and is looking for his father. In the wake of the parents' love story, the mystery grows and discovers a dramatic tangle of events in China, Thailand and Sweden, with disappearances and murders.
Soran Ismail has built his career on joking about racism, but never handled his own prejudices. What are you allowed to think, what are you allowed to say? And when are you a racist? A tv-series with swedens most serious comedian about everyday racism in one of the worlds most tolerant countries.
Anna-Karin has just finished high school in Östersund, Sweden, when she moves to New York with dreams of becoming a successful actor. It takes 16 years before the dream finally comes true. In 2008, she gets the lead role as Greta Garbo in a Hollywood film. Swedish media reports enthusiastically about our new Swedish star. Soon she has more film roles and her manager "Lars" succeeds in the impossible, he takes her all the way into Hollywood's inner circle. Journalist Angelica goes to Los Angeles with her camera to document all the incredible things that happen to her friend Anna-Karin. But something is not right.
Selma Lagerlöf's life and work never ceases to fascinate and to be relevant. Selma Lagerlöf broke with the old role of women that she was expected to accept. Against her father's wishes, she applied for, and was admitted to, a teacher training college in Stockholm. She would now be on her own. And she had a particular goal, she knew she had "a strong star"; she had stories in her, and she saw beyond the visible.