“Best short of the decade”
Göran Olsson, Swedish Film Institute

Young mother Anna-Karin Johansson was 34 years old when a blood-vessel burst in her brain. Her awakening from coma was a nightmare; the damage was extensive. Chaotic sensory impressions distorted her understanding of reality. But as her condition stabilized, she fought to go home.

It is Anna-Karin’s true story that forms the basis FISSURA, a 28-minute narrative film that takes us into the mind and the strange world of a stroke patient as she struggles to resume ownership of her body, her thoughts and feelings, her future and her life.

Watch the trailer.