Midsummer night's dream, the sun seems to never disappear. It´s the brightest day of the year. Ragna Asjölander and Emil Karlsson has inaugurated there own carved sauna raft in Volgsjön.
Inland Railway departs once a day, the train puffs through sparsely populated areas slowly so that all the tourists have the opportunity to enjoy the northern landscape.
Laila Lahrström visit is much appreciated by Lars Nolin. Laila works in home care in Vilhelmina and make home visits to older people who have decided to stay in their home in spite of depopulation in the area.
On the outskirts of the mining town of Gällivare. The district is an exception to the depopulation of the effected area. Here it is, rather, a development that takes place and the mine is hiring peoples again. Here there is a future for those who want to live in sparsely-populated areas.
There is not much to do for the youths in the village of Vilhelmina except to drive around with the cars around in the village. When they become bored they often go to the neighboring village two hours away.
The small white wooden barracks is Gällivares refugee camp. Here live many nationalities while waiting for their asylum decisions.
Auto Sport is big in the countryside. The day after midsummer, it is our tradition to go on midnattsolrallyt of Vilhelmina.
Nils Karlsson splitting firewood for the upcoming cold winter. The temperature in winter can be below -25 ° and snow depth sometimes is one meter. Then it is important to bunker up with wood to provide heat during the winter.
Micki and Emelia waiting for their parents to be ready with the shopping in the neighborhood store in the Vilhelmina.
Thorbjörn Frisk sit and looks out over the Great Lulevattnet in his wife parents home in Porjus.
Yangmei Ke Magnusson is one of few who move into Vilhelmina recently. Yangmei found it difficult at first to move away from Shanghai with 27 million inhabitants to Vilhelmina, with its 7,000 inhabitants in the municipality.
Anders's interested in scooters are very big. He does'´t want to wait for the snow to be able to drive the scooter, it is just as easy to ride it on the lake summer times, if you drive fast enough.
The clouds are thick over the ski station Dundret in Gällivare. The temperature is 10 degrees and the the rain is approaching. A typical Swedish summer in the north.
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