1986 film by Lars Lennart Forsberg

A short film about Ingmar Bergman's power, sexuality and facial lipoma that gives him no rest.

Sweden, beginning of the 18th Century. Executions are popular entertainment and brothels a given. Still the executioner and the whore are both despised and shunned. The executioner became executioner against his will and the whore, only 17 years old, was forced into the brothel. This is the story of how the two meet and exchange cruelty with tenderness, guilt with innocence.

Klas has a mission from God. He is a crusader born to fight against the horrible unknown that is threatening the city of Stockholm... But who and what is the threat?

Jocke wants to change his life and start studying after the prison sentence, but instead he is freed, against his will, from the prison. His brother owes a criminal from the Balcans large sums of money.

30-year-old Jon is released after seven years in prison and decides to put all his criminal activities behind him and start a new life.