Dark Blossom

Frigge Fri / Denmark / 2021 / World Premiere / 80 min

The 20-year-old Josephine never felt she was a part of the community in the small town she grew up in. She always had a tough time making friends and her upbringing was marked by loneliness. She never liked to play handball like all the other girls and didn’t fit in at the local discotheque Crazy Daisy. The only place she felt safe was in her room, and behind the closed doors she developed the “Girly Goth” character, who every night dreamt herself away by livestreaming on social platforms. In the Goth-culture she has found her two friends – the expressive maximalist with the self-invented name “Nightmare” and the reflective and thoughtful Jay, who grew up in a very Christian home with a couple of well-meaning but overprotective parents.
Armed with black outfits, bones from dead animals, dark make-up and towering mohawks, the three friends are fighting to break free from – and control – the cycle of loneliness, invisibility, inner chaos and diagnoses, which have always been a part of their lives. When the Gothic trinity are together, they create a safe space, where they freely, playfully and undisturbed can engage and support each other in their search of finding a place, both in themselves and in the world, to belong.
One day Josephine falls deeply in love with the 16-year older Jan, and after knowing him for only three months, she accomplishes her biggest dream of moving away from her small hometown by moving in with him in a suburb of Copenhagen. But as “Nightmare”, who struggles with love himself, is having a tough time handling his jealousy and her changing her way of living, the precious friendship is badly threatened.