Britt-Marie, a woman in her sixties, decides to leave her husband and start anew. Having been housewife for most of her life and and living in small backwater town of Borg, there isn't many jobs available and soon she finds herself fending a youth football team.
Emma dreams of becoming a professional soccer player and her mother is her biggest supporter. Unfortunately, her mother has not understood what soccer is all about.
Young Maja is married off to their neighbour's son, Janne, and the couple settle on a barren island in the Åland archipelago in the early 19th century.
