
Before World War II, Swedish workers had to deal with low wages, scarce work, and the extensive importation of foreign labor, particularly for the purpose of breaking strikes. This did not make foreigners of any stripe very popular, and those from "guest worker" countries were particularly disliked. In this film, set in 1938, a half-Polish boy goes to Poland in search of his mother, runs into financial and psychological difficulties there, and is sent back to a Swedish mental hospital. In another story, an unfortunate woman suffers a miscarriage and ends up at the asylum where the Polish boy is being kept.
Eije Ström

Mother
Albin Ström
Farmhand

Gerda

The Pimp's helper
Madman at St. Lars

Singer at Tavern
Woman at the Polish Church

Tavern guest
Accordion player
Waitress
Farmhand

Priest
The Count
Prologue (voice)

Rectifier

Pimp
Pig Watch
Farmhand
Polish Woman
Priest
Sailor
Anton

The Cook
Swedish Official in Poland
The Captain

Old Man at St. Lars
Caretaker at St. Lars

The Poet at St. Lars
The Doctor at St. Lars
Priest in Catholic church
Choirboy
Choirboy