Ivar Lo-Johansson's 'Kungsgatan'

The film Kungsgatan, based on a novel by Ivar Lo-Johansson, was released in 1943.

Young woman Marta dreams of a better future and leaves her parent's cabbage patch and moves to Stockholm. Waiting tables doesn't pay nearly enough and she soon finds herself working the streets. Her teenage sweetheart, Adrian, also moves to Stockholm to search for her.