Elisabeth Söderström

Helena and Sten have been together for some time, but is now starting to drift apart. Helena is expecting a baby. This sets off a chain reaction in their lives and in their circle of friends.

Adaptation of Nobel prize laureate Harry Martinson’s famous poem. The poem consists of 103 cantos and relates the tragedy of a space ship which, originally bound for Mars with a cargo of colonists from the ravaged Earth, after an accident is ejected from the solar system and into an existential struggle. The style is symbolic, sweeping and innovative for its time, with creative use of neologisms to suggest the science fictional setting.