The Baltic island of Bornholm, Denmark. Restless
Luka (fifteen, she/they) doesn’t want to continue their
education – or do anything else productive. The world
is on its last legs – what’s the point of pretending? Too
young to legally drop out, Luka is enrolled in an internship
rotation programme to try different jobs and futures.
Between summer parties, Luka reluctantly learns the
ergonomics of cleaning, entertains cruise ship visitors
at the local farm museum, and follows milk production
around the island. As the island opens up to them, Luka
finds alliances in unexpected places: plants, rocks, waters.
They spin their own ideas of value, work, sex, and nature.
They swim, climb, are blown by the wind. They pursue
forbidden love – curly-haired Frida, a young motorbike
aficionado in tractor-town Klemensker.
Algae blooms in the ocean and F16s overhead remind
Luka that everything precious and beautiful can just as
easily be lost. At a rave on the south beach, the island’s
power grid is sabotaged. During the ensuing blackout and
sudden stop of everything, Luka is surprised to find that
they do care deeply and know how to stand, strongly, and
fully be themselves.