Birgitte von Halling-Koch

A young boy witnesses an old lady's 20 last minutes in her apartment, where she has lived her entire adult life, before she has to go a retirement home.

Contre l'avis de plusieurs de ses collègues, le juge Jens Chistian Poulsen, président du Comité danois pour les réfugiés, refuse d'accorder l'asile à un Géorgien qui, selon certaines sources, aurait un passé criminel. Lorsque l'homme tente de s'immoler par le feu, la presse s'empare de l'affaire et le juge se retrouve au coeur d'un scandale politique, impliquant une ministre des Affaires étrangères aux méthodes troubles. Dans ce moment de crise, Christian, célibataire endurci, voit débarquer un fils qu'il n'a pas vu depuis sa naissance. Le jeune Anders, 16 ans, qui vient de vivre un drame, souhaite connaître son père biologique. De plus en plus sous pression, le juge laisse à contrecœur le garçon entrer dans sa vie...

The city is gasping for air in the scorching summer heat; everyone is under suspicion; a persistent detective superintendent is burrowing for the truth. A fiercely penetrating drama about a mother's love for her autistic adult son, who is suspected of murdering a local girl. The mother knows her son could have committed the murder, but she conceals her knowledge, and gradually becomes entangled in a thicket of lies. How far is she prepared to go to protect her son who is helpless in so many ways? Does she have it within her to give up the only person she loves?

Fed up with his quarreling middle class parents, thirteen-year-old Jonas runs away from home. He seeks his freedom in the woods, where he befriends a girl his own age and a drunken ex-pilot, who offers him some warmth and understanding.

A group of children fleeing from a cruel stone age society with violence, exploitation and sexual abuse.