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When Liv, Ellen and Håkon, along with their partners and children, arrive in Rome to celebrate their father’s 70th birthday, a quiet earthquake occurs: their parents have decided to divorce. Shocked and disbelieving, the siblings try to come to terms with their parents’ decision as it echoes through the homes they have built for themselves and forces them to reconstruct the shared narrative of their childhood and family history.

When Mathilde is forced to leave her teaching job in Oslo after her relationship with 18-year-old Jacob is exposed, she flees to the countryside for a more authentic life. Her new home is a quiet cottage on the outskirts of a dairy farm run by Andres and Johs, whose hobbies include playing the fiddle and telling folktales - many of them about female rebellion and disobedience, and seeking justice, whatever it takes. But beneath the surface of the apparently friendly and peaceful pastoral surface of the farm, something darker and less harmonic starts to vibrate.

Tre barndomsvenner - Tarjei, Trygve og Kristian - beslutter at lade sig hverve til de norske styrker i Afghanistan. Under en operation kører bilen på en landmine, og drengene bliver dræbt på stedet. Hvorfor tog de overhovedet af sted? Og hvad med familien og resten af det lille lokalsamfund, som får dem hjem i kister? Hvad bestemmer vores valg i livet? Bliv hvis du kan, rejs hvis du må handler om at vokse op i, være omgivet af og bryde med en tryghed - som ikke længere er tryg.

Anne’s life is rushing to an unexpected and untimely end. But her diagnosis of terminal cancer isn’t just a shock for her - and for her daughter, Sigrid, and granddaughter Mia - it shines a spotlight onto their fractured and uncomfortable relationships. On a spur-of-the moment trip to France, the three generations of women reveal harboured secrets, long-held frustrations and suppressed desires, and learn humbling and heart-warming lessons about how life should be lived when death is so close.

Sigrid, dottoressa quarantenne, vive a Oslo con i figli e il secondo marito, insieme al quale ha abbandonato il paesino di campagna dove è cresciuta, lasciandosi alle spalle un carico di ricordi difficile da sostenere. La nuova serenità che ha conquistato è però solo apparente. Sigrid è infatti segretamente gelosa del rapporto che la figlia maggiore sta instaurando con il padre, il suo primo marito ricomparso da poco e forse mai dimenticato. E poi c’è la madre, Anne, ormai quasi settantenne, fiera e indipendente.

«Ci stiamo lasciando»: tre brevi, semplici parole che innescano un terremoto. Quando Liv, Ellen e Håkon arrivano a Roma insieme ai genitori per festeggiare il settantesimo compleanno del padre, tutto si aspettano tranne quello che sta per accadere: i genitori annunciano che hanno deciso di divorziare.