Estranged sisters Wenche and Eslebeth must cooperate to give their mother care. 18-year-old Kine has finished school, is pregnant, and not worried.

Artist Rose is living with the man of her dreams, Dr. Richard. But he has two kids from a former marriage, and they compete for his time.

Single mother Marianne wants soft and dialogue-based child rearing, but that doesn’t work well with two manipulative and bossy teenage daughters.

Single mother Marianne’s youngest skips school. Marianne for once tries to punish her. Wenche must take care of her mother, but it’s Elsebeth’s day.

The new mother Kine’s friends are going to France to study. Kine wants to come as well, when she has convinced her parents to watch Emma for a year.

Wenche robs a nursery home for an armchair for her mother. After a death in the family, Rose reluctantly takes care of little Gabriel the whole day.