That’s what growing up means: You fall, you hit bottom, you lose what’s most important to you, and even though you’re running like mad, you just can’t get away.

It’s the early eighties and the dawn of the yuppie era. Bror is in his last year at comprehensive school. His mother is the most beautiful woman in town, a glamorous aerobics instructor and former diving queen. His father is an athletics coach who sells sanitary towels for a living, owns a cell phone and buys a house in a new housing development. Bror is training to be a runner and is deeply in love with the running star of his sports club, the two year older Marita who runs barefoot like Zola Budd.

Bror has everything, but within a year he loses most of it. His mother gets cancer, his father has spent too much money, and one day Marita disappears. While Bror spends all his time trying to find out what has happened to her, he is little by little losing his mother and uncovering the doings of his father. When the truth finally comes out, he doesn’t want it.