In Cairo, Yassir Arafat is elected PLO chairman to coordinate the attacks against Israel. The first flight Boeing 747. And Richard Nixon in office at the White House.
Reports from different parts of the world - Muammar Khadaffi overthrows King Idris of Libya, Olof Palme becomes Prime minister of Sweden, and on M-Day in the US crowds are protesting against the war in Indo China.
In the desert between Morocco and Algeria, one of the world's forgotten conflicts is taking place. Brännpunkt has been the first film team to visit the desert's youth who are fighting for an independent Western Sahara.
Meeting with young people in one of the world's poorest countries, the Central African Republic. Forgotten by the mass media, the country is drawn ever closer to a civil war.
About the Canadian indigenous population who basically lives on reservations and have little hope for a change to come. And the Native Youth Movement with lots of angry young Indians.
About the many wars and conflicts in and around Afghanistan. Now they are in power in Kabul. Fauzia is studying medicine. She is 19 years old and the only female in school.