Four tourists travel to to the Swedish island of Gotland in the month of September hoping for the time of their lives. They soon discover however that in the time of year of their choosing for the vacation, is a time of year where Swedes are anywhere but on the island. The four tourists soon discover that the few inhabitants of the island are carrying a secret; a secret that is about to make the four wish they had never come to Sweden.

An objective, fictional and completely true account of when the Sockerdricka rush wears off and our most beloved characters have to grow up. We meet a forgotten Pippi Longstocking, the traumatized financial shark Alfie Atkins and a bitter Karlsson-on-the-Roof who has been banned from flying. But what is really left when the spotlights go out and the game is over? Jimmy Olsson, who was once Sweden's foremost investigative journalist, decides to get to the bottom of this central question.