By Dennis Hartley

(Originally posted on Digby’s Hullabaloo on May 24, 2025)

Danish director Gustav Mölle’s followup to his excellent 2018 debut The Guilty (my review) concerns a prison guard (Sidse Babett Knudsen of Borgen fame) who works at a maximum security facility. Taciturn and unflappable (especially in contrast to her quick-tempered, frequently brutish co-workers), her professional cool gets sorely tested when she learns that a dark figure from her past has been transferred to her facility. An intense, unflinching drama that takes the moral and ethical dilemmas of its protagonist head on, and an uncomfortable reminder that there is an equal capacity for good or evil that exists within us all.