Cuando a Michael le hablan sobre un ensayo clínico con un nuevo antidepresivo, se apunta sin pensárselo. Desgraciadamente, las pastillas tienen graves efectos secundarios y deciden suspender el experimento. Pero Michael se niega a dejar el nuevo estado de calma y autocontrol que le han procurado las pastillas y decide seguir con el experimento por su cuenta. Intoxicado por su rápido éxito, Michael siente la necesidad de controlar también la vida de otras personas. Poco a poco, sus juegos psicológicos se vuelven más drásticos, hasta que descubre algo que le fuerza a ver sus acciones bajo una luz aterradora
Rikkes mor
Eleven-year old Rikke lives alone with her father, whose only interest in life seems to be the soccer matches which appear on his television. Not surprisingly, Rikke is somewhat bored. She enters a contest put on by a cereal company which has as its grand prize a horse. Since she lives in the city in a second floor apartment, it never occurred to her that she might win, but win she does. The horse ("Mama-Mia") duly appears, and she and the members of her slum neighborhood come together to cope with the situation in a delightful way.
From a working class coming-of-age novel, Morten Arnfred fashioned his feature film to recapture the feel, the sting, the pain, but also the spirit of solidarity of the 1950s in the metropolitan city of Copenhagen: at the center, young Johnny, helpless, hapless, happy, unhappy, going through the motions of growing up. Bodil awards: Best Film and Best Actor (Allan Olsen).
