The kidney patient Frederikke desperately wants to become a mother. That requires a new kidney. During Easter holiday she plans to ask her brother for the kidney he promised her as a child. But on arrival he brings his new girlfriend revealing their pregnancy, making it almost impossible for Frederikke to ask. Before the weekend is over old wounds boil up to the surface, revealing that the entire family has been hurting during Frederikkes lifelong illness.
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For the last ten years 40-year-old Jeppe has paid daily visits to the nursing home where his crippled wife, Tove, has been put after a serious traffic accident to remain for the rest of her life. Desperate about this meningless fate, Jeppe has put everything else in life aside and has chosen to be faithful and devoted to her. But this cannot go on, his pseudo-life becomes too much for his crippled wife. She pretends to be in love with her male nurse and throws Jeppe out.
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", "Riget" means "the realm" or "the kingdom" and leads one to think of "dødsriget", the realm of the dead.
The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.
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