Britt-Marie's "40-year-old marriage has just broken up because she learned her husband was unfaithful. Now at 63 years old, she is faced with making a new start in life in the small town of Borg. Told she is a nagging passive-aggressive aunt, the only job she can find is quite challenging: to coach the town's youth soccer team. She knows nothing about soccer or coaching, and the team is the team is the town's pride and joy, but she takes the job...

Britt-Marie no puede soportar la desorganización. Un cajón de cubiertos desorganizado ocupa un lugar destacado en su lista de pecados imperdonables. No es alguien que juzgue a los demás, no importa cuán maleducados, descuidados o moralmente sospechosos puedan ser. Es solo que a veces la gente interpreta sus sugerencias útiles como críticas, lo que ciertamente no es su intención. Pero oculta en el interior de esta persona incómoda y socialmente...

Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. The square is strange but also familiar, full of the odds and ends that have made up their lives: Grandpa's work desk, the stuffed dragon that Grandpa once gave to Noah, the sweet-smelling hyacinths that Grandma loved to grow in her garden. As they wait together on the bench, they tell jokes and discuss their shared love of mathematics. Grandpa recalls what it...