Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik’s heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway….

Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg’s novel.

A wealthy woman is suspected of murder and runs from the police

Via the New York Times: “Swedish filmmaker Alf Sjöberg’s Bara en Mor takes place in a Statare, a farming community where the workers and their families were reduced to virtual…