- A Danish group of guys sing in a church choir on Sunday, but indulge in God's forbidden pleasures every other day. When one of them drowns under mysterious circumstances, their unity and loyalty to one another is put to the ultimate test.
- In a Danish church in Silkeborg, Nikolaj gathers a group of choir boys to cultivate a sense of community he cannot find anywhere else. Together with his brotherhood, Nikolaj engages in all kinds of self-destructive behavior to avoid living in the reality where he has a troubled relationship with his father. At the same time that his best friend Lasse dies under mysterious circumstances, Robin, an old friend from the past, returns back to their hometown. Robin meets up with Leonora, Lasse's old girlfriend, who is suspicious of the nature of Lasse's death. Together, they start investigating the brotherhood, and the group's loyalty and unity are tested, forcing them to either stay boys or evolve into men.—Kim
- In a Danish church in Silkeborg, Nikolaj gathers a group of choir boys to cultivate a sense of community he cannot find anywhere else. The brotherhood remains a permanent part of the twelve boys, and their bond is solidified by the burn mark of an inverted Q on their arms. Together, the boys have formed a strong brotherhood that lets them confront the paradoxical challenges of being a young man in 2021. Nikolaj and his rebellious choir engage in all kinds of self-destructive behavior to escape the reality where they have troubled relationships with his respective fathers, especially Nikolaj with his adoptive father Mikael. One night, the choir boys inaugurate their newest member and go out to celebrate. The day after, Nikolaj's best friend and a treasured member of the brotherhood - Lasse - is found dead under mysterious circumstances. At the same time, Robin, an old friend from Nikolaj's past, gets released from prison. Back home, Robin runs into his childhood friend Leonora, who was also Lasse's old girlfriend. Leonora is still struggling with Lasse's death, and she believes that the brotherhood is covering up what really happened that night. Together, Robin and Leonora start investigating the choir boys, and the group's loyalty and unity are tested, forcing them to either stay boys or evolve into men.—Kim
- The autumn is rolling around in the Danish town of Silkeborg, where the sun casts a spell over the large lakes and green forests surrounding the town, making the world look like a postcard. However, this idyllic picture is shattered when a young man - Lasse - is found drowned after a wild night out with his notorious brotherhood. After the death is written off as a tragic accident and Lasse is buried, his girlfriend Leonora suspects that Lasse's friends might not have told the whole truth about Lasse's accident. She thinks that the group's alpha male, Nikolaj, seems to know more about the incident than he is letting on.
In the midst of the mystery of Lasse's death, Robin returns home to Silkeborg to sell the house of his recently deceased father. Robin was forcibly removed from his biological parents when he was only 12 years, and has not returned to his hometown since. The plan is to fix up his father's house, sell it and then travel somewhere far away. However, the past is apparently not done yet with Robin. Shortly after he arrives, he bumps into his childhood friend, Leonora. He supports her through her grief and promises to help her find out the true circumstances of Lasse's death. However, this puts him straight on a collision course with Nikolaj, who used to be his best friend before he moved away.
Robin learns that Nikolaj is no longer the spoiled little boy who was teased for singing in the local boys' choir and whom Robin had to protect from bullies. Nowadays, Nikolaj is not only a charismatic playboy known for throwing Silkeborg's wildest parties, but also the leader of a group of young men who have formed a brotherhood around the church choir they sing in. This transformation is linked to the fact that Nikolai's already wealthy father Mikael has risen to the top of the upper class after some suspicious business deals, and now Nikolaj enjoys the privileges of big money - power, influence and material abundance. None of this, however, changes Nikolaj's strained relationship with his Mikael, who never hides his disappointment in him.
Rather quickly, Robin becomes involved with Nikolai and the somewhat outlandish brotherhood of lads who cultivate the paradox of all singing in the local church choir while at the same time having made sin a way of life. Whoring, drinking and general hedonistic escapism combined with Bible verses is the formula that Nikolaj, with a certain ironic distance, preaches to his 'congregation' of young men. Life as a young man in 2021 is full of absurd contradictions, and one might as well embrace it, is Nikolaj's philosophy. Robin, at Leonora's urging, throws himself into the group of choir boys. But what starts as a favour for a childhood friend soon develops into a fascination with the free-spirited brotherhood of the choir boys. Robin seems to be on the run from his past and longs desperately for a place to belong. Robin experiences the rush one can only feel when being part of a tight-knit friendship group of boys. Although the choir boys "play" wildly, there is also a masculine care, tolerance and tenderness between them that Robin has never experienced before. At the same time, a complex relationship develops between Robin and Nikolaj that is marked by jealousy, competitiveness, betrayal and power struggles, but also by respect and a shared sense of loneliness that no one else seems to understand. Both boys have grown up without mothers and with neglectful fathers, and since both are only children, they find a kind of brotherly love for one another. Together with Nikolaj, Robin and the other boys, we are thrown into a tour de force on the twisted side of modern male masculinity. Robin and Nikolaj are forced into a self-examination, where they have to decide who they want to be as friends and as men. Can they both step out of the long shadows cast by their fathers and through their friendship fight the loneliness and alienation they both suffer, or will they perish and become one with their dark sides...
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