ErlandandJoakimsaidyesterdaytheirliveswereunchanged despite their newfoundwealth, telling the magazine: "Wedrive the samecars and live in the same houses as before."
The whole sorry episode is recounted by a troubled and impatient Marianne to an aging writer (Erland Josephson), who is either recalling her or imagining her.
Amico bought the rights to the technology in 1996 from the U.S. Navy, which had acquired the patent from a Swedish engineer, Bengt Erland Ilon, who invented this wheel in 1972.