Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
Sam and Amanda are friends. One day, they accidentally throw Sam's sister's diaries in the garbage can and have to trace them to the city dump.
A poetic documentary of its nature and of some rare people living on Gotska Sandön, an isolated island in the Baltic Sea, close to Ingmar Bergman’s home residence Fårö.