Rie is a PR-coordinator visiting a tunnel boring machine to portray the well-oiled European cooperation in the Metro construction when an accident suddenly occurs. Unable to escape, she takes refuge in an airlock with Croatian miner Ivo and Bharan, a worker from Eritrea.
Production
Shot in a real tunnel boring machine — no sets, pure authenticity.
Acting
Sønderris's physical deterioration is genuinely hard to watch.
Sound
The machine's ambient groaning becomes a character.
Director
Rasmus Kloster Bro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Copenhagen Metro expansion depicted was real; production had limited shooting windows during actual construction downtime.
The film quietly indicts Denmark's 'model minority' narrative by making Ivo and Bharan the competent ones while the Danish professionals panic.
DK
