This exhibition presents two artists with unique visual languages who have interpreted their immediate surroundings and the life they contain. Belonging to the same generation, Olle Nordberg (1905–1986) and Olle Olsson Hagalund (1904–1972) and have been praised for having succeeded in capturing the Swedish folk soul. If Nordberg can be seen as a portrayer of rural life, then Olsson Hagalund's paintings become nostalgic images that in some cases foreshadow shifts in society.
The motifs of both artists hold on to a time that has passed, while also considering the changes taking place in the city and the countryside. Nordberg's art has been compared with Olle Olsson Hagalund's, to point out differences in their choice of motifs:

"Where they [Sven Erixson, Olle Olsson Hagalund and Erik Hallström] brought out the beauty in a dirty suburb, Nordberg found it in the archipelago of Lake Mälaren, outside Stockholm. His brush could bring the old crofts and their inhabitants to life in what became a fantastic mixture of saga and harsh reality." (S. Johansson, obituary for Olle Nordberg in Svenska Dagbladet, 2 April 1986).

Calling Olle Olsson's beloved Hagalund, which he even added to his last name, a "dirty suburb" sounds like an exaggeration, but it was true that when the maintenance of the area's buildings had been at a standstill for many years, awaiting demolition and new construction, the colourful residential suburb fell into disrepair and over time resembled a shantytown. Olsson looked past this in his paintings and let the character of the old wooden houses shine through in his motifs from the municipal community that had been officially founded in 1899, with buildings that dated back a few years before that, including Olsson's house that his grandfather had built in 1897. Today, Hagalund is perhaps better known for the high-rise 1970s building Blåkulla, while some older buildings full of carpentry joy have been preserved after the fight that was waged during the demolition zeal of the 1960s with Olle Olsson on the barricades.

Olle Nordberg preferred to stay on Munsö in Lake Mälaren, where he was born, although his childhood was in the inner city of Stockholm. Already as a young adult, he chose Munsö to settle permanently and find peace and quiet for his artistic practice. It was not the cliffs and waters of the archipelago that fascinated Nordberg the most, but the simple life, people in crofts and farms, coffee breaks, togetherness as well as loneliness. Many of his motifs also contain a large dose of romance and fantasy where existential questions are evoked. Where Olle Olsson Hagalund's figures act as extras in scenes where the bodies of houses become animated, Olle Nordberg's crofters become giants whose bodies are filled with longing and love.