Beneath the Surface

Daniel Fridell nicely illustrates the strong bond between two sisters in this fact-based drama, which centers on a 23-year-old junkie who tries to protect her beloved younger sister from her old boyfriend and his reckless world of drugs and prostitution. Johanna Sallstrom, Tove Appelqvist, Mikael Persbrandt, Lennart Jahkel, Elisabeth von Gerber, Roxane von Gerber., In this fact-based Swedish movie, 23-year-old Stockholm junkie Sandra (Johanna Sallstrom) nearly dies from an overdose and checks into a rehab home, unaware that her drug pusher roommate Roffe (Mikael Persbrandt) is plying drugs on her 18-year-old sister Jannika (Tove Appelqvist) and forcing her into prostitution. Sandra soon leaves rehab in order to save sis — while flashbacks reveal the childhood influences they experienced with their now-divorced upper-class father and alcoholic mother.