Mirja Burlin

When the fish runs out at the South Pole, Pelé Penguin and his parents are forced to move to his uncle Fernandez in Stockholm. Pelé has trouble adjusting to big city life and his clothes and way of talking and eating attract mockery. But when Pelé falls in love with a penguin girl named Madeleine, his life takes a different turn.

Erica's parents are killed in a traffic accident. She moves to Fjällbacka and discovers she has a brother.

Daoud lives in a limbo that he is trying to break. He cannot go back to Somalia and he is expelled from one European country to another. He is a 'Dublin-case'. Daoud is accused of lying about his age. He has almost given up. The film depicts his time in Sweden.

Harry works as a hairdresser in a mental hospital. He likes to play bingo and is married to Anna. One day he meets the cleaning lady Sonja.

"The Rise and Fall of Little Voice" - Desperately missing her dead father, Little Voice spends her time locked in her bedroom listening to his old record collection and perfecting astonishing impersonations of famous divas including Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland and Dusty Springfield. When her mother Mari starts dating small-time club agent Ray Say, she thinks he's her last chance for a better life.