An accident overthrows Ernst and Cecilia's well-ordered life. Chance rules in Ernst's rational world while Cecilia is searching for a deeper meaning in what has happened. As they drift further and further apart a suspicious stranger with exceptional gifts changes their lives in an unexpected way.
Acting
Izabella Scorupco's raw, searching performance anchors the wreckage.
Direction
Brisinger's restraint lets grief breathe without melodrama.
Director
Johan Brisinger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Izabella Scorupco was primarily known as a Bond girl (GoldenEye) before pivoting to Scandinavian indie dramas like this.
The film deliberately mirrors Ingmar Bergman's marital crisis films but replaces Bergman's theological despair with ambiguous magical hope—controversial among Swedish critics.
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