"When Else-Maj first arrives at school, she doesn't speak a word of Swedish and is terrified and confused. Her older siblings have warned her not to cross the Housemother. Dubbed The Witch by the children, Rita Olsson is brutal in her ways, quick to discipline the children with sadistic cruelty. At the school are also Jon-Ante, Marge, Nilsa, and Anne-Risten. They all have different ways of coping with their homesickness and the physical and psychological...