Before meeting Angela, Reine Olsson's life was gray and worthless: he had neither a job nor a family. Reine saw the same hopeless loneliness in a plump woman with milky white skin whom he met in church. Angela was silent and quiet, it seemed that she could do nothing but knit, watch TV and eat cakes. For Reine, Angela was like a blank slate with which to start a new life. He taught her everything he knew, for the first time in many years he realized his importance and fell in love with himself. Reine finally has a normal family: a wife, a house, a child. But when his son became seriously ill, it turned out that happiness was not so strong and an adult cannot be like the page of a new notebook...