Nicolaj Schröder

There was a double homicide on the forgotten Swedish countryside several years ago. Two angry young men beat two young women to death, seemingly without any particular reason. The years passed but the images in our heads did not disappear. We tried to forget it, wrote screenplay after screenplay, but we always came back to those murders, and to telling the story about a part of Sweden that we never read about in newspapers, and that is populated by people whose thoughts and destinies rarely reaches beyond their village.

Rasa, une jeune immigrante d’Europe de l’Est devenue ouvrière en Suède se retrouve licenciée malgré son dévouement et sa rigueur professionnels. Elle doit alors faire face à un système qui ne lui convient pas, celui du chômage. Mais sans diplôme et sans permis de conduire, difficile de trouver un nouveau travail. Avec un père à charge, Rasa n’a pourtant pas le choix. Munie de ses bottes de couleur, elle arpente les rues de la ville où elle a grandi, en quête d’un travail, sans jamais baisser les bras…

The gloomy, hate-filled lives of a group of teenage guys in the south of Sweden suddenly turn around when one of the guys' hippie-like cousin shows up.

A stray dog, found in the alleys in New Delhi, is brought to Sweden.