Laura (Rosalinde Mynster) was growing up in a small town in Denmark, with her parents and a brother, Jannik (Adam Rohweder). She always felt like the black sheep of the family, and has since left the family and has travelled to Copenhagen to become an author, at the same time she changed her name to Irina. As a subject to a book she chose to tell about her upbringing and her younger years, and there is certainly not much love in the written word. When we meet up with Irina she is driving home to her birthplace to attend her brother's wedding. She's certainly not looking forward to this reunion, but she do want to be there for her brother. Shortly after she has arrived she discovers that the brother's bride to be is her old Nemesis, Catrine (Anne Sophie Wanstrup), who was bullying her throughout her schoolyears. It soon shows that this wedding won't be without problems. Already at the dinner on the first day Irina has to miss out on most food, after she left home she has become vegan. Not good news for the parents, they run a farm! On the first day "home" Irina meets her former boyfriend David (Jesper Groth). We hear that she left for Copenhagen without saying goodbye to him. Later the first day the actual boyfriend arrives, another Copenhagen author. The next few days, amongst other things, we learn what Catrine did to Irina in their youth. Being a guest to her 10 year's birthday, she cut off all Irina's hair. Things escalates and the two women ends in a fight on the wedding day. The rest of the film is about the women befriending each other, Irina's boyfriend leaves the party for Copenhagen, and David and Irina open up to one another.
The film is a drama with a squish of comedy. I think that it must have been the director's idea to say that one thing isn't better than another, no matter where you live, and what you choose to do with your life, which of course is true, but I must say that Catrine shows the worst behaviour by far, apart from the bullying, she have stolen 4000 Danish kroner from Irina's mother, to buy a wedding dress. Meaning that I have the most sympathy towards Irina when the film is over.
The film is a drama with a squish of comedy. I think that it must have been the director's idea to say that one thing isn't better than another, no matter where you live, and what you choose to do with your life, which of course is true, but I must say that Catrine shows the worst behaviour by far, apart from the bullying, she have stolen 4000 Danish kroner from Irina's mother, to buy a wedding dress. Meaning that I have the most sympathy towards Irina when the film is over.