Nursing a piglet back to life because it’s the runt of the litter earns Emil a friend for life.

Emil’s reputation for being a troublemaker makes the Svensson family’s neighbours take up a collection for sending the boy off to America. But even if he among other unfortunate mishaps…

Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually lively little boy, who…

Divorced skipper John meets Anita, a single mother, at a port and spends the weekend with her.

In 1936 Sweden, a teenager drifts through life in his small town, hoping that a novel about the neighborhood he grew up and lives in will reverse the fortunes of…