A single mother unable to find someone to look after her youngest son Tobben gets her older son Pingo to look after him for the day.

In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one's foot down – or failing to do so – are explored.

A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.

It is autumn and the people in the otherwise peaceful small town Ystad settle down. But for Kurt Wallander broken idyll of a young woman burned to...