Hege Sophie Borgersen

Klara and her family are mourning the death of their mother when flowers appear on their doorstep from “Margrete”. But who is Margrete, and why won’t the family tell Klara who it is?

The incredible story of Gro Harlem Brundtland, who in the late 70s works as a young doctor, fighting for self-determined abortion, when she almost by accident, stumbles into politics. As the government implodes around her, Gro learns to play her own games of power, climbing the ranks until she is the last woman standing in the ruins of Labour’s celebrated social democracy, ending up as Norway’s first female Prime Minister in 1981.