Året var 1954.

1954 - this is the year when Marilyn Monroe wave to the American soldiers in Korea. In Sweden, a black hurricane takes the forest with it and the cargo boat Nedjan goes down with seventeen men. The sooty glasses emerge when the sun is completely eclipsed. And there is competition to look like Audrey Hepburn. Radiotjänst broadcasts television and the author Stig Dagerman dies.