Bitter Sweetheart gives us the naked truth about Lina Berglund, a perfectly normal 15-year-old who longs to be like her carefree and popular friends - Thea is good-looking and irritatingly popular and Carro is a nutty extrovert. Lina’s somewhere in-between, only kind of less of everything. She’s secretly in love with Ivar, who is two years younger. He keeps haunting her dreams even though she’s made up her mind that he’s a hopeless geek. When Thea starts going steady with Lillis, she sets Lina up with his best friend, the jock Danne, who’s already in high school. Makes perfect sense, according to Thea. Only Lina’s having a hard time knowing what to choose...It’s a tale that explores the merry-go-round existence of young teens falling in love, discovering sex and dealing with what friendship really means. Bitter Sweetheart gives us the naked truth about Lina Berglund, a perfectly normal 15-year-old who longs to be like her carefree and popular friends - Thea is good-looking and irritatingly popular and Carro is a nutty extrovert. Lina’s somewhere in-between, only kind of less of everything. She’s secretly in love with Ivar, who is two years younger. He keeps haunting her dreams even though she’s made up her mind that he’s a hopeless geek. When Thea starts going steady with Lillis, she sets Lina up with his best friend, the jock Danne, who’s already in high school. Makes perfect sense, according to Thea. Only Lina’s having a hard time knowing what to choose...It’s a tale that explores the merry-go-round existence of young teens falling in love, discovering sex and dealing with what friendship really means.