Muharem came to Sweden as a refugee from Prijedor in former Yugoslavia. He returns in the film to Prijedor and is confronted with the war and captivity in the Omar camp.

The film is set in the textile town of Łódź in Poland. Anna Skoneczka is an employee of the internal radio station of the plant. In the break between communism and The New Poland, she ends up in remorse and confusion. A film describing what happened to people in the shadow of the fall of the Iron Curtain:

Professor Stella Tchaikovski is a concert pianist and teacher. She also belongs to the wretched Jews who survived the mass exterminations of the Second World War. Today Stella lives in Stockholm but the memories of the difficult time she once experienced are still alive, even today she avoids some everyday tasks that can make her reminded of Auschwitz, whose constant selection and gas chamber she miraculously survived. In her apartment she talks about the experiences of the Second World War, ideally she does not want to burden her surroundings with her stories but she reveals that what she has experienced in Auschwitz rolls like a constant ongoing film inside her head – that she has never been able to screen herself from.

Munir comes from the war in former Yugoslavia and falls in love with Jessica from Örebro. The love story develops into a struggle between two separate worlds.

Journalists Bo G. Andersson and Christoph Andersson travel in the wake of Bofors illegal gunpowder shops in the middle of the Iran-Iraq War. A story about lies and excuses. Mats Lundberg, then head of Marketing at Bofors, is seized with documents from the Stasi archives in Germany. Documents proving that Lundberg has been a frequent guest of the East Germans.

Engineer Axel Blomgren from Sweden has been employed at the Nobel Brothers Oil Field in Baku in 1910. The film is based on Axel's Diaries cross-cut with the story of how the Nobel brothers built an oil empire in the late 1800s. We follow Axel Blomgren until everything is confiscated by the communists in 1920 and Axel escapes home to Sweden.

Arne Evertsson is a lifeguard. In the film, he transports Ivo Maričić (1935-1998), who died in Sweden, to the grave in Croatia. The story begins when Ivo in the 1960s takes to Sweden in pursuit of a better life. His wife and children accompany him to his native village to bury him there.

Zdzisław Pieniowski (1916-2000) came to Mariefred with a Polish submarine during World War II. He stayed and married a Swedish woman and started a family in Sweden. The film is about the rootlessness of Exile.