Thore Segelström
A solitary railway station in northern Sweden on a bitter cold winter day 1914. Based on a short story from 1944.
Young Henning and his friends is struggling to stay alive in 19th century Stockholm, where he has ended up in search for employment. In the harsh city he and his friends dream of the good life while struggling for their survival.
Anita is a girl of only 16 years, and while she has developed early physically, to a mature woman, she is psychologically completly ruthless. Her relationship the her parents and her friends is very poor and she is regarded with contempt by the people around her, even by the men who so ruthlessly use her.
The journalist Gunnar meets the cancer-patient Seija and love arises. Seija has only a short time left to live. The doctors advice her not to become pregnant, because radiotherapy could harm the fetus. She interrupts the radiotherapy and give later birth a healthy child. Meanwhile, it turns out that pregnancy has cured her cancer.
