Lars Bjälkeskog

The story of the fictional evening newspaper Kvällspressen and the journalists who works at its editorial office in Stockholm.

A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities—politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business—he finds more hypocrisy and political corruption than he thought possible. He takes refuge with a group of "bohemians", who meet in a red dining room in Berns Salonger to discuss these matters.

The enthusiastic Reine is forced to take a job as a social worker at Kumla prison.

Two men meet in a detached house in the Stockholm archipelago to write a play, hunt roe dear and relax in a sauna. But a tabloid got a news story about the authors and sends a journalist to take photographs and bug their conversations.

Magnus, an old man sleeplessly sneaks around at night in barns and fields at the farm his son Lennart has taken over. Magnus is anxious and impatient facing the next day.

Behind the scenes of the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest from Stockholm, Sweden. See the producers planning and the hosts rehearsing to entertain an audience of more than 100 million people.

The women of Athens plotting to end the war with Sparta by refusing to have sex until there is peace.