1939

When the war breaks out Annika lives with her parents in Värmland close to the border to Norway Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market but has to escape from the police to Norway Annika moves to Stockholm and gets a job as a waitress She meets the happygolucky Berit and together they have a wonderful time She also meets a young man Bengt whom she marries But almost immediately she discovers that her husband is different from the man who was courting her Plot by Mattias Thuresson