A young woman moves back to Holmsveden after her father's death. She notices that her childhood village has changed since she left it. The formerly lively main street is empty, the paint on the houses has peeled off and the bus routes have long since been withdrawn

A lonely young woman spends most of the time at home in her empty apartment after her husband left her. Eventually she gets a job at an elephant factory where you make five new elephants from parts of a single. At the same time, she dreams of a dwarf who wants to dance with her. But the dwarf is taboo. And when she tells about her dream to a workmate she is dismissed from work.