Lars Hammar's retirement didn't go as planned. Instead of a new beginning with travels and experiences, Lars has turned more and more passive to his wife and son Filip's dismay. Filip gets an idea: to take his rugged old father on a journey to his beloved France and let him revisit his most beloved places. By recreating the same vacation the family used to do when Filip was a child, and secretly try and stage some wonderful moments, Filip hopes to reignite Lars' spark again. With the help of his best friend Fredrik, a large heap of optimism and creativity, and an old Renault 4, Filip takes his father on one last adventure.

25-year-old carouser Carlo is sentenced to one year of community service after crashing his car while drunk and on cocaine. He has to serve his sentence at the Villa Bianca nursing home, along with other non-violent felons. He initially lives it as yet another nuisance, but spending time with Villa Bianca's residents — especially Dino, a cultured and sarcastic 80-year-old who has attempted suicide several times — will make Carlo change his outlook on the world and on life itself.

Days after her baby is stillborn, Robin's breasts begin to produce milk. Unable to throw it away, she decides to donate the milk. As her quest for a place to donate is more difficult than she anticipated, more and more milk starts to crowd her freezer and life.

Based on Julia Franck's novel which retraces the journey of a woman who, after the WWII, is ready to do anything to start a new life. Helene, a central character with many faces, shares life between two men, two worlds far from being alike