Hanne Lindbæk

Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched.

A story about five people who became friends as adults. They are all in the their early 40s and struggle to find meaning in their lives. They haven't seen each other since the last reunion was somewhat of an aggressive altercation. One thing they all have in common is the feeling of not having experienced enough. They have different social statuses, some are successfully well off and others struggle to keep jobs and relationships.

Fia is a wise and somewhat tough 8-year-old girl. Perhaps a cousin of Pippi Longstocking, only a little more vulnerable. Like Pippi, and all other children, she wants to be big and strong, with the power and opportunity to make the world the way she wants it to be. Fia has a difficult role as a kind of "mother" to her mother, a mother who is unable to cope with everyday life. But in the yard opposite lives the magician Bustric, and he becomes Fia's anchor in life. Bustric is a little grown up, but very much a child, and he saves Fia from being seen as a liar and a dreamer in the new class she has to start in.

A strange and extraordinary short film about a young boy and his pregnant mother.

Hos Martin is a Norwegian situation comedy that premiered on TV2 on January 6, 2004.