A man is beaten to death in the Middle East. In Stockholm, a young woman disappears on her way home from work. These two events will prove to be related. Since Martin Beck has quit, Steinar Hovland leads the search for the missing girl. But Martin is drawn into the case when he decides to help the national Security Police investigate a suspected terrorist. They soon realize that they are in a race against time to stop a catastrophe.
"It's simple! We do as we're told." This disconcerting reply comes from a Swedish employment office employee when asked how the country’s most unpopular government agency works. And that’s not all: in this creative documentary, case workers, receptionists and psychologists reveal how the Swedish employment system is failing. They complain about inadequate software and mystifying error messages, excessive caseloads and demoralizing results—on average, each case worker helps just 10 people find work each year, and only one in 10 clients will find a new job. To assure the anonymity of the interviewees, they're all represented by cardboard puppets. Thanks to visible puppeteers, expressive eyes and recognizable gestures, these puppets quickly take on the appearance of real people. The result is a fascinating, comical and artistic study of human strategies to get along in an irrational bureaucracy.
Carl Hamilton y Ake Stalhandske, dos agentes suecos, son contratados por la CIA para detener a unos contrabandistas de misiles nucleares rusos. El comandante Hamilton les sigue hasta Libia, pero cuando está a punto de capturarles se entera de que su familia ha sido tomada como rehén.
Cuando estalla la guerra, Annika vive con sus padres en Värmland, cerca de la frontera con Noruega. Su primo Harald es un traficante en el mercado negro pero tiene que escapar de la policía a Noruega. Annika se traslada a Estocolmo y consigue un trabajo de camarera. Conoce al despreocupado Berit y juntos lo pasan de maravilla. También conoce a un joven, Bengt, con quien se casa. Pero casi de inmediato descubre que su marido es diferente al hombre que la cortejaba. Trama de Mattias Thuresson.
