Two years have passed since the scandalous fire at the lime mill. The Urse family and their crazy cousin are gone. The year is 1939, and a new era has come to Hedeby with new rulers who will bring order and order.
The Svensson family is reunited for better or for worse. And Märta returns from Stockholm just in time for the midsummer dance, where she meets Erik Gustavsson, who has gone to wait for her.
August 31, 1939, a day filled with mixed emotions. Erik and Märta get engaged. And the citizens celebrate the waiting and the anxiety with an extra large sandwich table.