The old woman
- Now I will read some poetry for you all. The conditions are as follows: If during my reading I notice the least sign of disinterest, a yawn or a cough or a gesture of impatience, I will immediately terminate the reading. Poetry, like all deeper human activities, requires concentration.
Stoiweiler's neighbour
麻薬密売人の見張りをしていたベニーたちの目の前で売人の住むアパートが爆発炎上。それは巧妙に仕掛けられた爆弾によるものだった。コルベリたちの捜査は売人たちを徹底的に締め上げるが効を奏せず、ベックは麻薬ルートを追ってデンマークに飛ぶ。そして殺された売人の知人である女彫刻家の証言で黒幕の正体が判明した。その人物がストックホルムに行く事を知ったベックは飛行機に同乗し機会を窺う。空港に急行するコルベリとベニー、そしてそこには休暇を命じられマイアミに向かおうとしていたラーソンの姿もあった……。
House Maid
On a shooting range outside of Stockholm in the raw September night something is not right. In the darkness of the marker the ground shows signs of blood.
Olof's Mother
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
The witch
A knight returning home with his squire Jons after a ten-year crusade to the Holy Land finds a country paralyzed by the Black Death, a newly burned witch, a blacksmith and his runaway wife, an actress, a Virgin Mary with her child and the knight's faithful wife. All approaches the realm of the dead in a single "tragicomic long dance of death". The narrator begins with: "In a church in southern Småland is our spectacle painted on the wall just to the right of the entrance to the porch. The unknown painter has on the church wall depicted a number of people in formal long dance toward death."
Britt's Mother
A tale of a young woman, Britt, who has two flings, but finds herself with difficult decisions when she finds herself pregnant.
