Young Beate Kjaereng (18) hates living on the isolated island of Rolla. Beate feels she has no future on the island. All she can do is party all night and sleep all day! Beate’s parents are fed up with having an unemployed teenager hanging around. As tension in the family rises, conflicts become a part of everyday life. Rolla is located in a beautiful and exotic part of northern Norway but Beate feels she has to leave at any cost. Why is life in a small Norwegian village so impossible for a young girl like Beate? She has to make a choice and becomes a recruit in The Norwegian Army.
In this funny and entertaining documentary, director Fridtjof Kjæreng turns his eye to the Scandinavian welfare system. Although Norway has a relatively good social welfare system and is regarded by the rest of the world as a rich country, people still get bored! This is especially true for teenagers influenced by the media, who want to move to the larger towns down south to get more excitement in their lives…
1st Prize for Best Children and Youth Programme at Barents TV-festival, Finland, October 2002.
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