Gittan Wernström

1963 - the year when the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. Sweden suffers from an smallpox epidemic - hundreds of thousands are vaccinated, and several thousand are isolated. Colonel Stig Wennerström is arrested for spying for the Soviets. John F Kennedy is murdered in Dallas, while Martin Luther King has a dream about the future, "Villervalle i Söderhavet" is shown on Swedish TV.

Dr. Ernst Botman, a UNESCO nutrition specialist is sent to the islands of French Polynesia to investigate suspected cases of starvation. His family, including his wife, elderly mother and teenages Villervalle and Lenalisa, insists on coming along. Thus, they embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Feature film cut of the 1963 TV series of the same name.