The mother (Sonja Richter) is seriously ill, and the brothers Elma (Harald Kaiser Hermann) and Eric (Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt) are unattended and sent to the school by the principal, Lars Dittmann Mikkelsen (played by Lars Mikkelsen) in the boarding school. Heck is a man who believes in violence and believes that only through force can he truly convince the children in school and lead them on the right path.
The two brothers were tortured in this cage called school, which was actually a prison. The promise that their mother would come to take them home on Christmas became the only motivation for their survival. However, the two waited, waited, waited. It was the news of my mother's death. Lilian (Anne Sofie Gråbøl Sofie Gråbøl) is the new literature teacher in the school. She is keenly aware of the brutal atrocities taking place in the school, but she is powerless to do anything about it
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