Birgitte von Halling-Koch

A group of children fleeing from a cruel stone age society with violence, exploitation and sexual abuse.

Jens Christian is a streamlined career man and newly appointed chairman of the Refugee Board. Work is the center of his life, and everything is going well until an adopted son announces his arrival and an unusually difficult asylum case lands on his desk. Suddenly, the right choice is no longer clear to Jens Christian, who is torn between obligations and emotions.

A young boy witnesses an old lady's 20 last minutes in her apartment, where she has lived her entire adult life, before she has to go a retirement home.

Two sisters meet in connection with their mother's death in their childhood home in Kartoffelrækkerne, where the older sister lives. They are both marked by an unhappy childhood with their parents' drinking and quarrels. In their meeting, secrets come to the surface that put their sisterly love to the test...

Fed up with his quarreling middle class parents, thirteen-year-old Jonas runs away from home. He seeks his freedom in the woods, where he befriends a girl his own age and a drunken ex-pilot, who offers him some warmth and understanding.

The city is gasping for air in the scorching summer heat; everyone is under suspicion; a persistent detective superintendent is burrowing for the truth. A fiercely penetrating drama about a mother's love for her autistic adult son, who is suspected of murdering a local girl. The mother knows her son could have committed the murder, but she conceals her knowledge, and gradually becomes entangled in a thicket of lies. How far is she prepared to go to protect her son who is helpless in so many ways? Does she have it within her to give up the only person she loves?