Stockholm newspaper journalist Erik waited years for colleague-fiancée Anja Paerson to give up international photo missions, but is caught cheating when she does. Anja hastily accepts a job with a sleepy coastal country paper. Moving into the Lödquist boarding house, she meets and fall in love with widowed maritime history professor Niklas Andersson, whose doted son Kalle helps them bond but also needs to deal with his mom's tragic death during the rescue of an old local.
