Tora Larsson

A new substitute teacher attempts to teach a class of 7th graders in a Swedish school. The class gives her a hard time, provoking her until she can no longer control her outrage.

Vera, 13, engages in self-harm and ends up in the emergency room. The news of a six-month wait for specialist help upsets her mother. Dealing with this crisis very differently, there seems to be a surmountable distance between mother and daughter. Is it possible for them to re-connect?