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Fifteen-year-old Lars has a grandmother who is not quite like other grandmothers. "I want to die as a living human being," she says. This film tells the story of the last days the two of them share together, and surprisingly, it is not a sad film. They talk about life, eat traditional syrup cookies (sirupsnipper), and dance the Zorba.

Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is involved with the enemy, without being old enough to understand what is actually going on.

A youthful drama about a young guy and his struggles with his hatred of his father. Not even a relationship with a good-looking girl seems to cool his emotions.

Seamstress Katinka Stordal is a lonely and tired woman in search of love and freedom. When everyday life gets too much, she goes to Krane's pastry shop.

A hand is pulling the emergency breaks on a train, and a young military recruit has his live all changed. No one can answer a girl's question in court. What colour are dreams? A gathering of destinies. Can anyone answer why things happen?

Four men are gathered to play a game of bridge, when the conversation turns to unnatural and occult events.

A woman who has sacrificed everything for her family meets a man who makes her reassess her life

A six year old boy runs away from home with the family's big dog, a St. Berhard, who the grown ups wants to put down.

Harald's wife Eva has ambitions of becoming a writer, and divorces him to marry one of his friends, Anton. But Anton can't forget his former wife Ragna, and Harald is inheriting a large sum of money. Will this change things?

The film is often referred to as a «labor film», because it is one of several film dramas from the 1930s that the Norwegian labor movement supported and which should give the audience an understanding of the labor movement's politics.

The film is a so-called "worker's film", which was made on behalf of the Workers' Information Association to motivate voters in the cities to vote for the Labor Party in the 1936 parliamentary elections.