Hugo och Rosa

Brother and sister, they have lived through the 20th century in the little red house with its white decorations, characteristic of the Swedish countryside, which their parents had bought in 1898. Their daily life at Gunby farm, without electricity or running water despite its proximity to Stockholm, is still that of a poor rural Sweden of the 1930s, as the family photos show. From 1992 to 2002, the filmmaker followed the siblings’ relationship of complicity. The days are well filled, the weeks go peacefully by, the seasons change. Hugo goes to church, Rosa bakes her bread and brings out her accordion to accompany the songs she writes. But one day, Hugo, who is getting on for a hundred, falls ill and Rosa is forced to “move house”…