A love drama between two young people in a suburb. The story also depicts young people's everyday life in a multicultural society with all its ingredients: love, hate, joy and sorrow.
Sweden Sweden
Roberto Arroyo Valdes Karim Rahmouini Nazif Ramadani Victor Oliveira Nascimento Juwan Mardoukhi Linda Othiller Jeanette Montoya Meki Ali Hussain George El Fahl Gamal Houda El Machharawi Mahmud Saad El Haj George Totari Danijel Gubic Tarik Charafi Rickard Tauriainen Sofia Pekkari Maria Lundqvist Magnus Krepper Miran Kader
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