Internationally acclaimed and already a classic, My Life as a Dog is the story of Ingemar, an adolescent boy with a sickly mother, an absent father and his dog, Sickan. Things change when Ingemar’s mother goes to the hospital and he is sent to his Uncle's house and forced to leave his dog behind... Internationally acclaimed and already a classic, My Life as a Dog is the story of Ingemar, an adolescent boy with a sickly mother, an absent father and his dog, Sickan. Things change when Ingemar’s mother goes to the hospital and he is sent to his Uncle's house and forced to leave his dog behind...