Jenny and her boyfriend Bolle are expecting a child. This triggers ambivalent feelings in Jenny. She has clashed with the law and the youth welfare office and her relationship with Bolle is increasingly suffering from their drug addiction.
Acting
Nova's raw unpredictability—every tremor feels documentary-real.
Direction
Fleischhacker refuses redemption arcs, and it's devastating.
Director
Chiara Fleischhacker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Chiara Fleischhacker trained as a social worker before film school—hence the procedural accuracy that makes welfare office scenes feel like surveillance footage.
Emma Nova lived in a harm reduction facility for two weeks pre-shoot; the visible track marks in close-ups are practical makeup applied over her actual tattoos.
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