Nursing a piglet back to life because it’s the runt of the litter earns Emil a friend for life.

Emil’s reputation for being a troublemaker makes the Svensson family’s neighbours take up a collection for sending the boy off to America. But even if he among other unfortunate mishaps…

In the middle of this film, about the working class in pre-world war II Sweden, is Anders, who wishes to become an author, his father, who is a notorious dreamer…

Divorced skipper John meets Anita, a single mother, at a port and spends the weekend with her.

Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually lively little boy, who…