The 50 year old house wife Ingrid is unsuccessful in her first job after the kids have grown up. her husband send her to a stay at a summer hotel, where she return to spirit and goes back home only to find him in bed with a lover.

A young girl growing up in Bergen, Norway just after the 2nd world war, is trying to deal with the father's adultery and mother's deep depression, as she befriends a boy. This endangers her.

影片以一种粗糙的风格，通过独特的影像资料将现代战争的残酷后果充分展现出来。 电影描写了女人和孩子们在激烈的战争之后维持日常生活的能力。他们中很多人生活在帐篷或是废墟中，急需金钱、食物、水和电。其他人失去了家人，或是只剩下自己严重受伤了的孩子陪在身边。战争可以解决纷争或是带来和平吗？电影镜头跟随着这三个孩子一路走过战乱以及停战后的日子。