In the opening of Andersson's debut film, very successful at the time with the press and audiences, the tone of the narrative is set with apparent ease. At the end of the week, work is over at a small garage. The workers are given their wages. It is the height of summer and time to enjoy life. The two protagonists meet each other in the grounds of a hospital. Both are visiting relatives: on, one a grandpa, the other an aunt. In "A Swedish Love Story", these old sick people seem to be the first visible signs of the rigid, desesperate, disappointed and lonely world of adults. In the meantime, the young lovers cautiously try to get closer to each other. Their love os oblivious to social pretige and class boudaries, but creates a world of its own. An endearing, almost naive universe, but the only hope in this world, because little can be expected of adults. Andersson shows the many details of the hopeless materialism of the adults. Thirty years later, "A Swedish Love Story" is still convicing, because it is not pamphleteering - for that, Andersson reveals too much feeling for black humour and sympathy with the world.