Shades

Nikolaj and Irene have been on a week's holiday in Crete, and now they are on television to tell about it. They won the trip in one of the popular TV shows, where two people have never met before choosing each other. The romantic week didn't unfold according to plan. At home in Copenhagen, they both begin to chase happiness, but find that you don't stumble upon it easily. You don't win it in the TV lottery either. Original TV drama with a new generation of actors.

A nightmarish but lyrical movement through memories of children, deprived of being a child, living in the streets, under bridges and wheels, enduring cruel moons and preying maggots of society, the film is a dialogic shuttle between the harsh realities of street myths and histories.

Growing up on an isolated island off the coast of Croatia during the reign of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, young Serafin Skoko's formative years were as repressive as they were lonely. His father Joseph - the island's lighthouse keeper - ruled his household with an iron hand while making little effort to conceal his affair with his son's nanny Magda. His mother Marija was his only solace from the island's isolation and his father's tirades until her tragic and unexplained death. Years pass and Serafin has become an enlisted officer in the Empire's army, as well as the lover of a particularly noxious young woman named Tonka. As this relationship threatens to bankrupt him due to Tonka's lavish spending habits, Serafin checks into a mental institution faking mental illness so that his honor and army position may remain intact. However, Serafin's deception becomes truth as he experiences a long overdue breakdown - which leads to his unexpected salvation at the hands of intriguing hospital laundry attendant Sofia.

After the murder of her lover Julius Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor, Octavius.