Emma is a young woman living and working on her indebted farm, apparently quite content, with only her animals for company. Her polar opposite, Max, works for a dishonest second-hand car salesman, and has just learnt that he suffers from pancreatic cancer and might have only a few months to live.
He empties his boss’s cache of black money with the idea of running off to Mexico but, after a blood-curdling chase scene and a ballistic crash, ends up on Emma’s farm instead. Emma is unfazed by the arrival of the stranger even though his car destroyed her chicken coop. When the police turn up the next morning she covers up the fact that Max is inside. It is the start of a touching story about two outcasts who reach out to each other tentatively and learn to admire and respect each other and their habits without asking prying questions or judging based on appearance alone.
Director Sven Taddicken is a gifted storyteller, paying careful attention to emotional truth with a dash of visual imagination.
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