30-year old Marta flees from the poverty of her Belorussian homeland and from the dependency on her violent husband to the promising country of Sweden. Together with her ten-year old daughter Anna, she is put up in a refugee reception camp in snowy provincial Sweden. As Marta awaits the outcome of her application for asylum, she befriends Ali, an Algerian, whom she falls in love with. At the same time Bengt, an old-age pensioner, offers to marry her – thereby securing her and Anna's future in Sweden. Initially, Marta chooses love, but Swedish authorities make life difficult for Ali and herself. The first feature film by Agnieszka Lukasiak, who was born in Poland and grew up in Sweden, takes a very convincing immigrant perspective, making Sweden appear as a repellent, cool society that remains unmoved by the struggles for survival of asylum-seeking refugees. Simultaneously the film tells a disturbing tale of love and fate, all the more intense thanks to its outstanding cast.