When Acacia, an alternative treatment therapist, is sentenced to a mental examination on a psychiatric ward, she's looking forward to the opportunity to help a lot of new people. She's convinced that she can give her fellow patients more quality of life with clairvoyance, hypnosis and coffee readings than strong medication can. Her new methods quickly spread joy on the ward, but the medication-happy Dr. Bergstroem refuses to surrender to Acacia's strange, new-age methods. According to him she is very ill and the only solution is heavy medication.
Maybe the best thing to come out of Scandinavia during the hippie years was, in fact, the story of a radical libertarian and a hedonist capitalist. Their friendship, forged by being outsiders in a conformist country, took them through years of adulation and success, with slight detours into the welcoming arms of vilification and imprisonment. A joyride through taxation, mass travel, hookers and politics. Not feeling too constrained by historical facts, director Christoffer Boe's story of Simon Spies and Mogens Glistrup covers just a few of their decades in a tale of warmth and humour, defiance and eccentricity.
