Two addicts build a squat paradise. What could possibly go wrong? (Everything. Everything goes wrong.)
Minna, a drug addict who makes a living dealing drugs, can't pay rent and after cheating some delinquents she runs with the money. She meets Katja and they move together to an illegal residence outside the city, where a group of people have decided to join and live by their own rules.
Acting
Levanon and Kauppi's raw, unglamorous chemistry burns everything down.
Direction
Grönlund shoots poverty without poverty porn—just dead-eyed survival.
Director
Peter Grönlund
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Sweden's 'new wave' of social realist cinema, influenced by the 2010s housing crisis and EU migration tensions rarely depicted in glossy Nordic noir.
Levanon, a former addict herself, reportedly insisted on shooting the injection scenes herself—no doubles, no fakery. The trembling hands aren't acting.
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