A biographical meditation about the first Afro-Swedish actor Joe Sylwan. The family of performers and actors that he raised with Miss Arona, the one-time “strongest lady in Europe”, wove through Swedish cinema history for several decades to come. Simultaneously immortalised and forgotten, members of the family wander from scene to scene.

Sylwan had a minor role in the first and rarely screened 1949 film adaptation of Pippi Longstocking that Swedish filmmaker Salad Hilowle incorporates in this film successfully combining black and white film with Astrid Lindgren and an Art Deco aesthetic as well as exposing the history of Swedish racism that hindered the boxing career of Joe, or George Sylwan. Meanwhile, the first racist attack was documented in 1932, in which the actor “played the lead role”.