A rural doctor in the north of Sweden must travel for hours to his patients. When a young woman has a serious case of appendicitis the doctor must bring her on a dangerous trek downriver to reach the clinic. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Olof Widgren
Doctor
Birgit Tengroth
Anna i Kraja
Björn Berglund
Bengt Hansson
Emil Fjellström
Jon i Jovik
Birger Åsander
Edgar
Aurore Palmgren
Sara i Jovik
Elsa Desolneux
Sigrid
Georg Dalunde
Chairman of the social welfare board
Anders Nyström
Boy with tooth ache
A rural doctor in the north of Sweden must travel for hours to his patients. When a young woman has a serious case of appendicitis the doctor must bring her on a dangerous trek downriver to reach the clinic. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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