Svetlana Rodina-Ljungkvist

Uma vez espião, sempre alerta. Se um idoso achar a receita de um refrigerante da época da Guerra Fria, ele ficará rico. Em “O centenário que saiu sem pagar a conta e sumiu”, um idoso ex-espião de 101 anos sai em busca da fórmula de um refrigerante soviético que perdeu nos anos 70. Ele conta com a ajuda de um amigo octogenário em suas aventuras.

Ida lives hard and fast with too much drinking and a string of boyfriends, Sandor has very few friends and his mother insists that he practices ballet. They meet in a chat room and despite appearances they discover they have much in common. Sandor and Ida lives in different cities and when Sandor unexpectedly visits her it ends with disaster.

By chance Erik meets Viivi, an Estonian violinist playing in the Stockholm subway. They start an intense romance. Erik's mother dislikes the relationship, not having forgotten her escape from Estonia during the war. She reveals facts from the past and Erik finds out that his Swedish father adopted him. His real father was an Estonian nazi. Viivi has grown up in communist Estonia where her father was a party member and worked for the KGB.