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When Stockholm grocer Sven Holm dies of tuberculosis, his widow Ingeborg tries to keep their shop and three children afloat. Debt and illness drive her into the poorhouse; the children are boarded out to foster homes. After a desperate night escape to see a sick daughter, and a later visit in which her youngest son no longer knows her, Ingeborg's mind breaks. Years later her grown son Erik returns with a photograph that restores her to herself, an indictment of Sweden's poor-relief system that helped change the law.
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The one that changed a law. A widow loses the shop, the children are boarded out, and the poorhouse takes the rest. Sjöström in 1913, already refusing to soften it. The scene where her son does not know her is the whole argument.
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