The Days the Flowers Bloom

- Season 1

(2019)

Friends Erik, Mikael and Benny grow up in a chain house area in the late 1970s. Their families hang out, but behind the facades hide pain, grief and shame. As an adult, Mikael is forced to continue to handle her big brother who tormented the family with their abuse during adolescence. Benny becomes a playwright and uses the events while growing up in his plays. And now he targets the spotlight to his own family. Erik's grandfather left Estonia for studies in Sweden during the 30's. And when Erik now forms a family, the interest in his Jewish background is aroused.

Mikael's big brother Torbjörn turns out to have been wagging from school for two weeks. In panic, their mother gives Anita out to look for him. In the present day, adult Benny has begun the staging of his new play. Now the scene of his family's breakdown will be repeated. Erik researches his Jewish background after some surviving relative, which leads him to Estonia, which has just become independent. Friends Erik, Mikael and Benny grow up in a chain house area in the late 1970s. Their families hang out, but behind the facades hide pain, grief and shame.

Mikael sees his mother Anita being tormented during Torbjörn's abuse. To Anita's great shame, the abuse is becoming increasingly obvious. But Torbjörn does not let go of Michael's life even as an adult. Benny's new play about his family's breakdown is repetitive. He takes his unwitting mother Eva to the premiere. Erik takes his wife Kerstin and his son Jonathan to Estonia to meet a relative he has never met before. A broken car on the way home makes Kerstin and Jonathan go in advance to the ferry.