It is Carl Larsson himself, who here stands for both picture and words - he was also painter as a writer. Many were surprised and arrested by the sincerity of his memoir "I". Carl Larsson talks there about his hard childhood, about the battles around the artist opposition in the 1880s, about his path in the art, about the friendship with Ernst Josephson, August Strindberg and others. The film shows a lot of Carl Larsson's work from the early artistic attempts, the major monumental paintings at the National Museum, the beloved watercolors, the many portraits. It also tells about the love story with Karin, about life in Sundborn.—Athena Film