The Ingrate

Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is ready for the market. He contacts a director who might be interested. Erik is attracted almost immediately by the director's wife.

We never know their names. Two 30-year-olds spend several nights together, waiting for the abortion procedure. Before they met, each day looked the same to them as the previous one. She is a teacher, plunged daily into depression and alcoholism, he earns his living by trading grass. She spends the evenings in front of the TV, drinking into a pillow, and he spends time smoking herbs with two "bar mates. - Wojtek and Lukas - who are as lonely as he is - are looking for the anaesthetic that marijuana gives them. Something that will make them feel better, at least for a few moments. The condom they used did not work, the early pill also now, for the first time in a long time, they are forced to contact another person for more than an hour or a joint burnout. They are both forced to make a decision. During those few days and nights they spend with each other, they start to see a chance to change their lives. They have to decide not only about the fetus' future, but also their own.

Four-year-old Dorothy, the daughter of rich lawyer Winfred North, is inconsolable over her mother's recent death. Her father, too absorbed with business to pay attention to his daughter and her problems, marries Helen Stillwell, a widow with her own two children. Helen ignores Dorothy while taking care of her own children, treating Dorothy as if she's always "in the way". Finally Dorothy can take no more and runs away. She is found by the Goodwins, a married missionary couple, but when they bring her home, Helen Stillwell denies knowing Dorothy at all, seeing a chance for her own children to inherit Winfred's wealth and cut Dorothy out of the picture altogether. The Goodwins take Dorothy to Africa with them to bring Christianity to the natives, but matters don't work out quite as well as they expected.