Like It Never Was Before

A quietly tense family drama about a middle-class man's awakening to his own desires during a seaside vacation, where the promise of renewal gives way to the recognition that life can never return to what it was.

The Runeberg family is an ordinary middle class family, with a house in a suburb, a car and three children. By vacationing in a rented house by the sea, the hope is that the tension and anxiety between Rune and Gunnel will disappear. However, instead of spending time with his family, Rune finds himself attracted to a young man, Petrus. Whatever happens next, Rune realizes, it can never be like it was before.