Magnus is a photographer specializing in family portraits. When he plans for his mother’s 75th birthday he discovers family secrets that will change his life.

The film takes place over one day in Sweden. From dawn in Västervik to sunset in Stockholm a variety of characters going about their everyday lives.

Director Anders Grönros has for one and a half year been been filming the carpenter Sture Johansson, and how another consciousness takes over his body. This consciousness is named Ambres, claims to be 3000 years old, come from "the other side", and want to convey important knowledge about man, life and death.