In his appalling failure to communicate, the father of one teenaged and one nearly grown boy manages to inflate the tension in their relationships to tragic proportions. One boy has returned from study abroad in the U.S. with a suitcase full of Elvis and a whole host of notions which have no place in Sweden. The younger boy's aspirations are dashed by his father's coldness to him following his failure to win an athletic contest. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide