Beyond

One morning just before Christmas, Leena (Noomi Rapace) gets a call from a hospital in her childhood hometown: her mother is dying. She has spent her adult life keeping that place and its grief at a distance, and now she has to go back and face her mother for the first time since leaving. Pernilla August cuts between the grown woman and Leena as a child (Tehilla Blad), and the housing project called the swine rows stays in the frame.