Eric von Gegerfelt

19th-century northern Sweden is the setting for a story of forbidden love between farmer's daughter Marit and Jon, the scorned result of an extramarital affair between a gypsy fiddler and a girl Marit's father Germund once loved. ...

Henrik Karlsson is accused of having stolen 5,000 SEK, even though he is innocent. But to protect the real thief, who is sick in hospital, Karlsson takes the full responsibility.