It is 1968 and the recently graduated, politically engaged journalist Karin dreams of a top job at one of the major Stockholm newspapers. For now, however, she has to content herself with a summer job at a local newspaper. With her typewriter under her arm, she, like her rebellious artistic friend Lottie, finds a room at Georg, the publisher of that newspaper. It doesn't take long for this extraordinary duo to shake up the small, sleepy community, where residents have been barely aware of social protests in Paris or bras being burned overseas.