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.

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

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。

1991 film by Roy Andersson

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。

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.

2014 film directed by Roy Andersson