To Madeleine, the muddy road to the nearby town in front of her family’s farm seems like a threshold to another world. A mystical coming-of-age story in which the teenager experiences glimpses of the unknown as feelings of longing and loyalty collide.
Anna Norheim
A young woman tries to find her origins after having been abandoned as an infant at a cemetery wrapped in a cloth with satanic symbols, but as she gets closer to answers a malevolent spirit is telling her to leave.
Anna
Anna lost her child in an accident. Estranged from mundane life she has stopped feeling physical pain. Numb, she decides to end her life throwing herself out of a window. Miraculously Anna survives and wakes up in a nursing home where she befriends a nurse and a young boy. Slowly Anna starts to create meaning to her existence in hope to be able to carry on living. But how does this created meaning relate to the actual reality? Anna seems struggling with how to perceive her surroundings.
Ellen
Em 1999, Trond Sander espera a chegada do novo milênio isolado em uma pequena vila, no leste da Noruega. Lá, ele reconhece Lars, um amigo antigo. O reencontro faz com que Trond tenha lembranças de 1948, quando era adolescente e passou o verão na mesma região com o pai. Na época, o jovem precisou lidar com a traição e o abandono do patriarca, que fugiu com a mulher por quem Trond estava interessado.
Olivia
Ela adquire a habilidade de realizar uma introspecção na alma das crianças. Isso a convence de romper com as expectativas religiosas e sociais da época, quebrar as regras e se transformar em uma contadora de histórias, uma das mulheres mais inovadoras do nosso tempo que seguiu seu coração.
Linda
Becker runs a business in Tingsryd, Sweden, specialized in garden furniture. In fact he sells everything you can make a profit from, including black labour from the Baltic countries. Becker, who is driven by his obsession with money and consumption, has built a local empire with his lucrative business. Now his business is being threatened, both from the in- and the outside.
Gunnel
Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and private residences. Call Girl tells the story of how young Iris is recruited from the bottom of society into a ruthless world where power can get you anything.
Embla
Yngve invites his new girlfriend Embla to spend a week of summer holiday with his family at a nudist camp. Embla is not a nudist but keen to become a part of the family. Nevertheless tension rises between Embla and Yngves mother, as Embla feels pressured to adapt to the family costumes.