Vredens barn

Juan Ruz, a 23 year-old immigrant recently at odds with the law, finds himself entrusted with a camera from a television station, with the mission of conducting an inquiry into teenagers in difficulty in contemporary Sweden. In the Stockholm suburbs, he meets a 16-year old teenage girl who has abandoned school and lives with her drug-addicted mother. She finds no consolation from her out-of-work; racist boyfriend. In Malmö he becomes involved with a Uruguayan who has settled in Sweden with her three children. She finds the future in her adopted country so worrying that her one hope is now to return home. An alarming awareness that the famous ‘Swedish model’ of the welfare state is disappearing under the onslaught of political choices and budget cutbacks, as is the case throughout Western-Europe.