In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman (Jessica Lundberg) remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

It's the end of the week and Bernt picks up his girlfriend Marianne at work. This film tells the story about Bernt and Marianne's relationship through one day. They go to an auction, and visit friends, and talks in their apartment.

Mother, father and sister visit the adult son in the family in his small apartment for a dinner. The father gives one critical view after the other about his sons life.

一个漂泊各地的男人来到一所旅馆当服务生，在这里他结识了美丽的女服务员Anna和性格古怪的刷盘工Gustav。Anna和Gustav有私情但非出于她自愿。Gustav潜藏着可怕的犯罪欲望，他给新来的这个服务生起名叫Giliap并教唆他帮助实施自己的一个劫囚计划。Anna爱上了Giliap并希望同他私奔但被Giliap拒绝。一天，Anna突然不告而别...
瑞典著名导演罗伊·安德森（《二楼传来的歌声》《你还活着》）曾因此片票房与评论均惨败而25年未再导演长片。罗伊·安德森承认此片有缺陷，原因是他没有得到对影片的足够掌控权；同时他也表示，以当时观众的欣赏能力并不能接受这样一部稍显前卫的影片，一部与他的首部长片《纯爱故事》风格迥异的古怪影片。他还认为此片与随后上映的库布里克的《巴里·林登》一样出色。而以如今的眼光来看，这部片子作为cult类型便很容易让人接受。
瑞典1996年的电视剧集《佩西·塔拉》中有一段评价瑞典电影的情节，片中人物认为伯格曼的《芬妮与亚历山大》十分平庸，而罗伊·安德森的《Giliap》才是过去25年里瑞典电影的唯一杰作。

Roy Andersson's short movies focus on working class and youth daily life, capturing and portraying a small slice of his characters' day.

The puppy love of two teenagers is set against a backdrop of adults struggling with their own lives. As a couple in love, they don't care about anything but themselves and seem totally unaware about everything that surrounds them.

1991 film by Roy Andersson

1986年，瑞典国家健康与福利部委托导演罗伊·安德森就艾滋病题材拍摄一部教育影片，以便在学校和军队向学生和新兵传播艾滋病源头和防御的信息。但在电影拍摄期间，健康与福利部要求安德森终止该项目。原因是他们观看了已拍摄部分的素材，并对影片里信息的可靠性和拍摄风格提出了质疑。安德森并未遵循，而是凭几之力完成了该部电影。
关于艾滋病的起源，影片采用了阴谋论式的论调。在它的描述中，艾滋病病毒并非起源于非洲并由动物传播给人类，而是由美国科学家在实验室中创造出来，并随后应用于人体实验。今天，这部电影被看做是罗伊·安德森个人风格形成中的重要一步。

A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.

2014 film directed by Roy Andersson

A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman (Jessica Lundberg) remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.