Summer 1945. Anders Svensson lives a care-free life on the Swedish countryside. One day he gets a letter from his nephew, Ville. Now when the war is over, Ville is stuck in the Baltic city of Stettin. Without money or papers, he is unable to get to Sweden. But Svensson gets on a ship to the Soviet-occupied city. The Soviet military has made it very difficult for people to leave the port but with some ingenuity he manages to get past the guards.