A journey through Swedish queer film history.
A group of people traveling through Sweden. It is partly the shop assistants Inga and Britta who travel on a bike through the country, partly Nisse and Rut who are on a honeymoon and travel with a truck.
Pictures of Mårbacka and Uppsala. Episodes from films based on Selma Lagerlöf's books. The author herself reads from one of her books.
A description of Selma Lagerlöf in her home in Mårbacka. Selma studies photographs of Victor Sjöström's latest filmization; Emperor of Portugal. Selma goes to the movies to watch the movie. Selma studies the film rolls themselves.
The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character, and the first female storyteller to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909); a woman as pioneering in her life as in her remarkable work.