Original screenplay was called "Their Eyes See Us". Later the title was changed to "Lonely Road". To become "The Road to Skå" at the premiere.
Barnbyn Skå, a home for care and accommodation for psycho-socially vulnerable families, was founded in 1947 on the initiative of the Stockholm Child Welfare Committee on the property of Skå-Edeby, outside Stockholm, which was sold in 1940 to the city of Stockholm.