Children's Island

Based on the 1976 popular children’s Novel “Children’s Island” by P.C. Jersilds.

A coming-of-age summer in Stockholm where a teenage boy navigates independence, sexuality, and self-discovery while deceiving his mother about his whereabouts.

Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp, and he tells her he is. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounters on the path of life.