Andreas has everything a man can wish for – a wonderful wife, a big house in the country, and a great job. But a sudden car accident puts him in a wheelchair, leaving him paralysed below the waste and impotent. Will his marriage work?
Acting
Trond Fausa Aurvåg's raw, unsentimental paralysis portrayal.
Writing
Tone whiplash between domestic drama and creeping thriller.
Director
Martin Asphaug
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 2000s Scandinavian cinema exploring masculine crisis through genre lenses—think Insomnia but with more marital angst and less snow.
The wheelchair isn't metaphor; it's literal trap. Director Asphaug refuses inspirational disability tropes—Andreas is often unsympathetic, which makes the Wagner dynamic more queasy.
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