Sven-Olof Jansson

Lotta is 27 years old and an office slave. She has absolutely no ambitions to advance. Most of the time she sits and waits until office hours are over. Then she gets promoted...

Signe is past 30 and not even divorced, which worries her mother. Signe helps her neighbours instead and listens to opera while day dreaming about Vilhelm, who works in the same office as her

Karin moves from Finland to a small village in Sweden and finds that her love of books is viewed with suspicion.