Charles Dickens's classical Oliver Twist story, but set in modern day Stockholm and with a girl as the main character.

Tobias is in the middle of his life, works at an art museum, divorced and living with his 16-year-old daughter. His ex-wife is struggling with her new life, his brother is looking for excitement in life by being unfaithful and his daughter longs to move away from home. Close to Tobias are also the beautiful journalist Liv and the straightforward primary school teacher Graci.

Teenager Ebba has no idea who or where her real mother is. In India, she and her friend Camilla go in search of her.

The arrival of a beautiful new stranger in town prompts two boys to spend their summer holidays enticing the young woman to act in a short-film. However their motivation is purely that of seeing her naked.