if possible there be spoiler here hanna have live for four year alone with her kid since her husband go abroad to join a crusade ( or something like it ) . now and a messenger bring the news that her husband be come home and she leave her village to go to the harbor to greet him . but danger lurks everywhere and the plague have come to the land . hanna meet a lot of character along her journey ( which seem to go on forever without get anywhere ) . she meet joel and who have lose his family to the plague and a she meet a girl and abuse a sacrifice by a corrupted priest . she meet the imprisoned torben and the abandon emma and whose husband have close the city gate and refuse to let anyone in . finally she find her husband ulf and but the once powerful and happy man be now an addict to some foreign substance and barely able to speak . hanna feel that her husband have betray her and leave him and just to come back a few day later to pick him up again . then the girl get strike by the plague and everything seem to go wrong at once . a movie with lot of know and good swedish actor and but many have small role . this be a road movie and set in medieval time and without any road . the main character go around think and contemplate and meet different character . there be many long shot of riding and few with any real action . the plot become very slow and dull . when hanna actually meet anyone and it seem like all suspense and emotion that lack from other part must be say in just one sentence . this give greet sentence with threat of rape and murder a the norm which seem very uncharacteristic . the dialog which could bring the plot forward instead seem odd and stupid . in addition and hanna seem inconsistent with herself and her own motif . the only good thing be that lena endre seem to try to do her best with the material she have and and that the scenery and outfit be good . however and a real dull experience . negative .