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After a boating accident, the protagonist is missing and unconscious, hovering between life and death. The film takes us into this state, which manifests itself by following the character in a skewed version of reality, riddled with amnesia. Mysterious pearls start to appear and the sounds they make trigger memories in our protagonist, which eventually help him to return. The story can be described as magical realism, suggestive and at times terrifying.

Harald is a petty criminal, wheelchair-bound middle-aged man who still dreams of the big break for his hard rock band. When he's not watching Antikundran or drinking folk beer with his friend Staffan, he's dealing in antiques. Mostly stolen goods, “found” in empty houses in the countryside. One day a young woman knocks on his door. She says that Harald is her father. Having a grown-up daughter is a shock for Harald, but that's not all. The reason his daughter has sought him out is that her own child has been abducted, and she has no one else to turn to...