The film was released during Gothenburg International Film Festival 2007.

Produced by the Film i Dalarna, SVT i Dalarna and Produktionsgruppen Wechselmann AB.
Director: Maj Wechselmann.

The film is a chronologic family history which starts in 1850 when Aino Trosells grand - grand mother, Eli, as an eight year old girl was send out as a maid. Join a travelling through times, which separates the generations of maid working women and also Aino Trosell herself who as a young girl broke up from her family and started a new life in Gothenburg.

A film about old fashion women oppressors, about child murder, forced marriage and suicide. But most of all the film is about the courage and power to change your fate.

Aino was working as a welding operator in Gothenburg when she started to write books. Here is a Gothenburg depicted with nostalgia during the seventies. The many shipyards described from the inside, like the tobacco company and the social helpers office on Masthuggstorget and St. Jorgens Mental hospital.

Recorded in the mountains between the borders of Norway and Sweden, in Dalarna, Varmland and Gothenburg.

Maj and Aino met during the production of Majs film "En varvshistoria", a documentary about the rise and fall of the huge Swedish ship yards. Maj was much impressed by Aino´s novel "En granslos karlekshistoria, were Aino tells about "how to became a woman" through generations of sex and class struggle, on a general scale and an individualistic.

Aino Trosell was born 1949 and lives in Malung. Aino has written 18 novels, translated into six different languages.

Selected Awards:
2006 Trade Unions Ivar-Lo Johanssons award
2001 Expressen´s pocket price
2000 The best crime novel of the year.
1999 The Poloni Price