A priest with a violent past watches a boy get hurt. Then the gloves come off.
Sam works as a priest in a small town. He has distanced himself from a background of violence, but when a criminal gang moves to the village and attracts the youth, he is suddenly faced with the choice of retreating or acting. He retreats and a boy is seriously injured. Finally, he finds himself forced to intervene, and the group encounters resistance they could not have imagined.
Acting
Marika Lagercrantz brings weathered gravitas to every loaded silence.
Direction
Ovnell lets horror bloom in mundane spaces — kitchens, pews, dirt roads.
Director
Marcus Ovnell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Swedish 'Nordic noir' has evolved from detective procedurals to this — moral thrillers where institutions (church, state, family) fail and individuals must sin to survive. Ovnell fits the post-Östlund wave of uncomfortable Swedish cinema.
The title's biblical reference isn't subtle — Sam carries the sins of the town's inaction, but the film asks whether one scapegoat absolves everyone else or just lets them keep hiding.
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