The year is 1773 and when Emmi and Lea are guilty of vagrancy, they end up in prison at Långholmen in Stockholm. After a few weeks in the dirty and crowded environment, they both suffer from typhus, a really nasty disease that is transmitted by clothes lice. Although the doctor tries to cure Emmi and Lea both with death's powder and "wine in the left shoe", the future is uncertain for our two guinea pigs.