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direction Marlene Emilie Lyngstad

Denmark, Sweden 2026 Fiction Cor 106 min.

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Troubled by forbidden feelings for his seven-year-old stepdaughter, Richard decides to leave his girlfriend. He retreats to his childhood home to renovate ahead of its sale, but his self-imposed exile is disrupted by the childlike presence of his mother’s caregiver, Stella. He soon discovers her double life as a Lolita camgirl, and the two develop a transgressive surrogate father-daughter relationship. Their constructed reality begins to unravel when the stepdaughter he left behind reaches out.

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technical sheet

direction

Marlene Emilie Lyngstad

screenplay

Marlene Emilie Lyngstad, Emilie Koefoed Larsen

cinematography

Thomas Dyrholm

editing

Carl Gustav Nordentoft

sound design

Emil Salling

music

Josefine Skov

production design

Sara Helene Tilgaard Rasmussen

cast

Jan Gunnar Røise, Gina Jaqueline, Karin Bertling, Molly Kirk Rasmussen, Kitt Maiken Mortensen

production

Carl Osbæck Adelkilde

co-production

Kristina Börjeson, Thomas Robsahm, Thomas Heinesen, Johanna Bergenstråhle, Evelina Jacobsson

produced by

Nordisk Film Production

co-produced by

Nordisk Film Production Sverige AB, Film i Väst, Amarcord

world sales

TrustNordisk

galeria

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