
The year is 1872. After being to drunk the stooge Gustaf Karlsson hits his master. To avoid sentence he enlists to the army and get the name Rask. He meet his future wife and we then get to follow his life together with his wife and their children in the 19th century Småland (Sweden). Their subsistence features happiness, but also by horrible tragedies.
Gustaf Karlsson (Rask)

Ida
Nergårds-Anna

Johan Klang
Oskar Olsson
Tilda

Kapten Jägerschiöld

Axel

Ingrid
Elias Olsson
August Olsson

Edvard

Rapp-Hanna

Bergströmskan
Idas mother

Lena

Karamellkärringen
Police