On his way home from school, an unhappy, lonely eight-year-old boy takes his frustration out on a stake in the woods. One day he suddenly sees another child doing the exact same thing. The two boys become friends: they run through the hills and play war together. But because of his miserable existence this friendship is ill fated.
Linde has a job on the side as a chambermaid in a luxury hotel. Her seventeenth birthday seems a day like any other at the hotel, until she hears some alarming noises coming from one of the rooms: screaming and crying. Later, she sees how a man pushes a Nigerian girl into a car. When she realises her peer is probably the victim of human trafficking, she becomes aware of the shady sides of society and of her privileged position.
Olaf, an engineering student, lives with his father Vincent. Once a renowned architect, now suffering from early Alzheimer’s disease. Olaf is struggling, because he wants to keep seeing Vincent as the man who knows everything. In the run-up to the birthday party Olaf organises for his dad, their surroundings grow darker; a concrete wall casts a shadow over their house from the garden and Vincent’s condition is deteriorating. Olaf will have to realise that living together in the present is more valuable than persistently clinging on to what used to be.
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The temporarily displaced teenager Olivia wants nothing more than to return to her mother Selma. In crisis center Girla, she discovers just how suffocating their symbiotic bond truly is.
