Gunnar Sjöberg

The poor young girl Emma marry the farmer Nicklas Botvide and his life will never be the same.

The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into the Soviet Union. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at their hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.

When Kerstin Norback is shot and gravely wounded by her lover, the trial causes a public scandal, forcing her to move to Stockholm under an assumed name. There she befriends a group of women and attempts to rebuild her life.