Alma lives a humble and secluded life behind the walls of a contemporary Catholic convent in Denmark. As she prepares for her perpetual vows as a nun, her older brother Erik unexpectedly shows up. He is a recovering alcoholic and clearly depressed, yet Alma struggles to show him mercy, as his presence unearths a family secret she has desperately tried to suppress. With the ceremony impending, Alma begins to lose her footing and doubt whether she is worthy of the love of her God.
Bartender Karin
Cuatro profesores de instituto se embarcan en un experimento sociológico en el que cada uno de ellos deberá mantener la tasa de alcohol en su cuerpo al mismo nivel, durante su vida diaria, intentando demostrar de esa manera que pueden mejorar en todos los aspectos de su vida.
Martha
ANDRÈ (32) and his newfound girlfriend ELISA (35) are pregnant with their first child. Full of hope for the new life to come, they move to the countryside to get closer to Elisa's mother, MARTHA 63. André wants to provide for his family, so he starts an ambitious microbrewery project. The future seems bright for the expecting family. But instead of bringing them closer together, the pregnancy comes down on the relationship like an avalanche as Elisa develops a psychosis due to the pregnancy. She starts to show sides of her that André has not seen before and disturbing secrets from the past are revealed. André finds himself entangled in a web of lies spun by Elisa and her overprotecting mother, making him doubt his own sanity and ultimately fight for his own and his unborn baby's life.
Lise
William's father is dead and his mother is mentally ill, so he lives with his uncle Nils. Nils is on early retirement, making money by buying things cheap and selling them high. He has also accumulated a large debt and city's gangsters are on him, demanding that he pays it full. William sets out to pay off the debt of his uncle - and perhaps his courage might impress Viola too, a girl from his class.
A former dancer returns for the first time in years to his childhood country village to attend his mother's funeral. The man discovers that the love of his youth still lives there, trapped in an unhappy marriage with the town priest. The dancer and his former lover secretly resume their liaison and slowly rekindle their old love.
Lasse's Foster Mother
Después de cometer un error que costó la vida de uno de sus colegas y dejó tetrapléjico a su mejor amigo, el inspector Carl Mørck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) atraviesa una de las peores épocas de su vida. Su sentimiento de culpabilidad aumenta cuando su jefe y la prensa dudan de su actuación. Relegado a un nuevo departamento dedicado a casos no resueltos, Carl, junto a su nuevo compañero de origen sirio Hafez al-Assad (Fares Fares), ve la oportunidad de demostrar su valía al descubrir las numerosas irregularidades cometidas en el caso de Marete Lyngaard (Sonja Richter). Cuando en 2002, esta joven promesa de la política danesa desapareció mientras realizaba un viaje en ferry, la policía decidió cerrar el caso por falta de pruebas. Este es el nacimiento del Departamento Q y su primer caso por resolver...
Maria grows up in a seedy 1960s working class neighborhood, the daughter of an ambitious emigrant father and soon caught up in her own dangerously one track-minded pursuit of a violinist's career. A rich gallery of highly original characters contribute, for better and for worse, to Maria's coming of age. Based on Kirsten Thorup's critically acclaimed 1982 novel, filmed by Morten Arnfred.
