Synopsis

Recently widowed librarian Desirée visits her husband's grave and notices Benny, a blunt dairy farmer tending his parents' plot nearby. Their attraction grows despite a deep cultural divide: she belongs to an urban, intellectual world, while his life revolves around the farm and its routines. As romance tests both their assumptions, each must decide how much of their old life to surrender.

Factoids & Trivia

• The film is adapted from Katarina Mazetti's novel of the same name, which was inspired in part by her experiences as a farmer's wife.

• Released in Sweden on August 2, 2002, the film became a major domestic success, eventually attracting more than one million Swedish cinema viewers.

• Michael Nyqvist won the 2003 Guldbagge Award for Best Actor for his performance as Benny.

• Some of the outdoor scenes were filmed in and around Lulea in Sweden's Norrbotten County.

• The novel on which the film is based can be seen on Desirée's bookshelf, placed beside a photograph of her late husband.

• For the farm scenes, artificial horns were attached to the cows appearing in the production.

• The German DVD release used the alternate title "Mein Bauer, seine Kuh & Ich."