A matriarch dies and family relations are put to the test. We follow the lives of the four leads - John, the father of the family, who has a serious heart condition but risks his life by sticking to his job as a hospital porter; Tom, his son, who is in the process of losing his wife and children because his career as a building contractor overshadows everything else; Eva, the elder daughter, trying to make her way as an artist but is scared stiff whenever she faces a blank canvas; and Marianne, the younger daughter, who gets a new job running a staff canteen and initiates an affair with a colleague. All four try to find themselves and one another, and all four learn that a family isn't something you choose, but something you're born into.
2872 meter, 35 mm, 1,85:1 - Widescreen, color, Dolby, SRD
Danish theatrical release
15.02.2002
Cinemas
Dagmar, Palladium, Grand, Gladsaxe Bio, BioCity (Tåstrup), Empire, Kinopalæet (Lyngby) samt 18 biografer i provinsen. (Urpremiere ved filmfestivalen i Berlin 10.2.2002)
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