Midsummer Night

MIDSUMMER NIGHT

Hanne! Come on, Hanne!

Yes!

Come on!

Come on!

A bit more. There. There. A bit more. There. There.

Right!

That's it.

Oh, yay! Yes!

Elin, Elin, Elin, Elin!

Come on! Come on!

- Come on! Pull, Robert! - Pull!

- Pull! - Come on.

Come on!

Aw!

Say it.

Be finished with it. Can you rip off the wretched plaster?

Say it!

- Norwegian drunk. - Hell yes.

Oh, is it about drinking?

2 WEEKS EARLIER

- You're building big this year. - Yeah, I thought so.

We have lots of planks left after the conversion.

Yeah, I think the time is approaching to talk to them.

Okay. When?

Um, Midsummer Eve. Do you think?

- All in one place. - Sure about that?

I think it will be very good. If we're glad, so they'll be glad too.

But Hanne's got her wedding soon. Can't we wait until after they're married?

I think it's better to tell them when we're all together, uh,

in a party mood.

Ah.

Hello?

Can't we celebrate Midsummer the Swedish way this year?

The Norwegian traditions are so...

- Are so what? - I mean, they're so tedious.

So we'll do "little frogs," gulp herring,

put up the maypole, and sing a lot instead?

Yup. It's such a lark.

Håkan is coming. He'll love to help out.

- His new flame? - Yup.

How many have you invited, really?

Håkan and Sara. And the, uh, girls, of course.

- Uh-huh. - Your daughter is coming.

- Uh-huh. - Elin, Darius, his parents.

I thought it'd be good if we met them before the wedding.

Seeing as we barely know them.

Trust me. It will be good.

Oh...

CALLING

- Papa. - Yeah?

I have this for you.

- Good. - Amazing.

Best dad ever.

Ah.

Why are you taking it off?

It's Midsummer. You must wear it for when the guests arrive.

No, I... I can't do that, love.

- Stop taking yourself so seriously. - Hmm. If not me...?

For heaven's sake, they should be here by now.

Håkan has all the herrings,

Where on earth have they got to? Hello?

Why isn't he there?

- Hey. - Hey!

Yup. Wait there.

- Hey. - Welcome.

- Thanks for the invite. Here you go. - Oh wow! Look, bubbles.

- Hi, sis. - Hey. Hey.

Way too long.

- Helena, darling, come help me. Yeah? - Sure.

- Good to see you. - Hey, Dad.

Mm.

- How have you been? - All right.

- Yeah. - How about you?

All good. No... yeah.

- Your job okay? - Fine. Yeah.

Hope the flat's working well.

There were quite a few circuits that needed changing. I could...

- Yeah. Thanks for the offer. But... - Sure.

It's good you're so handy.

It's nothing. Don't mention it. I could just drop by and...

- No, thanks. I'm good. Yeah. - Petro?

- Sure. - Help me with the last garlands?

Yup.

Absolutely.

That'll be Darius.

Do you know everyone's car horns?

- No, I mean, I know that one. - Okay.

- Hi. - Hey.

Hey, welcome now.

- How lovely. - Happy Midsummer, Mama.

- Good hug. - Hi there.

- Hey. Hey. - Hey. Hey.

Welcome.

Hey.

- Happy Swedish Midsummer. - Oh! Likewise.

- Thank you. - Let me see the ring.

Look how fine. Johannes.

- Mm-hmm. - Look how very fine it is.

- I've seen it before. Yeah. Fantastic. - It's amazing.

My parents say hi. They'll be here in a few minutes.

- Yeah? - They're picking up my brother.

We don't have any food yet, so it doesn't matter.

- What? - What?

No, you see, it was your uncle Håkan who promised to bring the food.

The herring. I don't know where he is.

Hope nothing's wrong. You know how fast he drives.

I know it.

Never mind. We have it.

- We have wine and bread and salad. - Good!

We are starting to worry that something has happened.

Call me as soon as you get this.

- I'll put this in the kitchen. - Sure.

- Yeah? - My goodness.

Sweetheart, why don't you leave that in front of the house? Hmm?

Absolutely. Thanks.

- Ah. - Um...

Are you making strawberry cake?

Yep. No Midsummer without strawberry cake.

We used to do the "loves me, loves me not."

Yeah.

- So let's see. "Loves me, loves me not." - Yeah.

Hi.

- Have you met Petronella? - Hi.

- No. - No?

- Nice to see. Darius. - Petronella.

- Yeah. I heard so much about you. - Yeah. I've heard a bit about you too.

- What do they call you again? - Petro.

Yeah. It's great to get to know your half-sister.

- Yeah? - Hi. Good to see you.

Congrats on your engagement. And that kind of thing.

- Oh, yeah? Yeah. Thanks. - Yeah.

- How did you propose? Was it with...? - It was Hanne who proposed, so...

- Ah. I see. - Yeah, she beat me to it.

- Right. - Mm-hm.

Hanne's very strong.

Yeah.

- There she is. - Mm. You talking about me?

- Hi. - Hi, Petro.

- Hi. Oh, good to see you. - Ooh, likewise.

- Found out you proposed. - I guess that I did.

- Yeah. Congratulations. - Thank you.

Let me see.

Oh! It's really lovely.

Oh, just look at it.

Time to get the party started!

Look over there!

- Hi, honey. So glad to see you. - Hi.

- Oh, hey! - Hey!

- Oh, I especially love new people. - Lovely to see you.

- And old. - Hey!

- Hi. Tabur. - I'm Petronella.

Lovely.

- Long time no see. - Yes, very.

- Are you...? Have you been all right? - Yeah.

It's... okay? Amusing?

Uh, yeah.

My brother and, uh... your sister?

- Oh, yeah. - Yeah.

That, uh... We didn't see that one, did we? When...

When we had terrible jobs at that burger place, right?

- Exactly. - It's good to see you.

- It's unbelievably fantastic. - Hello!

Finally!

- Welcome. - You know what? I was... It's absolutely...

And what? This is fantastic!

Thanks.

Yes, that's all thanks to Johannes. He's a gardener and a carpenter and...

That's what I asked. I said... I've been saying to Tabur.

"You're not a real man," I said,

"until you've put together one of those... tall things."

- Oh, what's the name? What is it? - Pergola?

Pergola! You're not a man until you've made a pergola.

You're so good-looking!

You just get more and more good-looking.

- Without a doubt. - Thanks for inviting the family, Carina.

- We so very much appreciate it. - You are most welcome.

Also, I know it's terrible, but actually, we don't have any food.

- Well, for you. - How lovely.

We'll survive on potato salad.

- My brother is on his way from Strömstad. - Oh!

And I've just been ringing, ringing, ringing, ringing.

- I hope nothing has happened to them. - There was a traffic accident.

We heard it on the radio. About an accident.

What?

There was. We heard there was a pileup.

Near Mosseporten.

He's arrived. No need to worry.

- So he sailed the boat from Sw... - He sailed the boat from Sweden.

- Is that... Is that his daughter? - No.

No, it's his new girlfriend.

- Oh, but... but, isn't he our... - Yep.

- Same age as we are. - Yeah.

I've rang you a thousand times without an answer.

- I thought you had an accident. - All my fault. So sorry.

There was no reception out there.

But to hell with it.

- We're here now. Huh? - Yeah.

- And now, you all have to meet Sara. - Hey!

- Hi there. - I'll say hello properly later.