Inspired by Sergei Eisenstein's silent film Battleship Potemkin, it tells the story of a spontaneous rebellion on a ship travelling to an industrial town in Sweden and has been described as a "modern classic".

Working for the Service Civil International at a camp in bombed out Hildesheim, she met her husband Åke Forselius and moved with him to the Dalarna Region.

Imagining how Russians could sail their warship up the river to her native Hofors and rescue steel workers from their dismal tasks, she wrote a social satire in a distinctive new style of her own.

Commenting on the novel in Dagens Nyheter, the critic Ingrid Arvidsson wrote: "...the prose is brand new, precise and untamed, fresh and fantastic.

[1] Her later novel Morbror Anders also addresses the modest aspirations and limitations of a member of the working class who ends up dying after spending thirty years in a mental institution.