Jonas Sjöstedt

Following the 2014 general election, political turmoil and a government crisis ensue. When the Sweden Democrats—the third-largest party—vote in favor of the Alliance’s budget proposal, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven calls for a snap election. SVT political reporter Pontus Mattsson follows ministers, opposition politicians, and ordinary party members from election night through to the announcement between Christmas and New Year’s that the snap election has been cancelled.

Jens and wife Åsa pack up the family to spend the summer in the archipelago. The idyll, however, does not appear when it comes out that the in-laws do not intend to leave the cottage to Jens and Åsa, but plan to spend the whole summer there with them.