Mette has a childhood like so many other children. She plays, draws, watches television and is with her mother and father. But underneath the surface, the family's pillow creaks when Mette's father has a gloomy side. Recently, his assault on the mother has begun to intensify and, as her mother is in hospital after a serious injury, and later in the local shelter, Mette faces some major changes in her life.
Thomas Biehl
Flemming
Helle Halsboe
Dorthe
Sophie Hald Jensen
Mette
Mette has a childhood like so many other children. She plays, draws, watches television and is with her mother and father. But underneath the surface, the family's pillow creaks when Mette's father has a gloomy side. Recently, his assault on the mother has begun to intensify and, as her mother is in hospital after a serious injury, and later in the local shelter, Mette faces some major changes in her life.
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