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
각각 역사, 체육, 음악, 심리학을 가르치는 같은 고등학교 교사 니콜라이, 마틴, 피터, 토미는 의욕 없는 학생들을 상대하며 열정마저 사라지고 매일이 우울하기만 하다. 니콜라이의 40번째 생일 축하 자리에서 “인간에게 결핍된 혈중 알코올 농도 0.05%를 유지하면 적당히 창의적이고 활발해진다”는 흥미로운 가설에 대한 이야기를 나누고, 마틴이 실험에 들어간다. 인기 없던 수업에 웃음이 넘치고 가족들과의 관계에도 활기가 생긴 마틴의 후일담에 친구들 모두 동참하면서 두 가지 조건을 정한다. [언제나 최소 0.05%의 혈중 알코올 농도 유지할 것! 밤 8시 이후엔 술에 손대지 않을 것!] 지루한 교사, 매력 없는 남편, 따분한 아빠. 최적의 직업적, 사회적 성과를 위해 점차 알코올 농도를 올리며 실험은 계속되는데… 과연 술은 인간을 더 나은 상태로 만들 수 있을지, 도전의 결말은?!
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
막무가내 외골수 성격 때문에 과도하게 범죄 현장 진압을 하다가 동료를 사고로 잃게 된 칼 뫼르크. 본인도 치명적인 부상을 입고 4개월 병가 후 경찰서로 돌아왔지만 이미 그는 동료들 사이에서 민폐 캐릭터. 강력계 복귀 대신 새로 만들어진 ‘미결처리반 Q’로 발령받는다. ‘미결처리반 Q’는 지난 20년간의 미결사건에 대해 수사에 문제가 없었는지 간단한 확인 절차 후 정리하는 부서로 사실상 좌천당한 것. 하지만 미결 사건 중 5년 전 자살로 추정된 미모의 정치인 메레트 린가드의 시체가 발견되지 않았다는 것에 의혹을 품고 사건을 수사하기 시작한다. 꼼꼼하고 친화력 100%의 아랍인 앗사드와 한 팀이 된 사교성 제로 칼 뫼르크. 사라진 시체, 장애를 가지고 있는 남겨진 목격자, 그리고 그 안에 숨겨진 진실…, 기묘한 콤비의 ‘미결처리반 Q’ 그 첫 번째 사건이 시작된다.
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.
