Beartown

Lonely Bjornstad—Bear City—lost in the northern Swedish wilderness: beyond it are only impassable forests. Once, life was bustling here; now there are unemployment and hopelessness. The last hope of the townspeople is the local junior hockey club—the one that once finished second in the national championship. Hockey in Bjornstad isn’t just a sport: around it run no small passions, and everything depends on it—everybody’s fate. The day of victory in the quarterfinal match becomes the happiest day for both the city and the club’s leadership, for the team and for its seventeen-year-old captain, Kevin Erdahl. But for fifteen-year-old Maia Eriksson and her parents, it was a terrifying day that overturned their whole life…

For every resident of the city, the need arose to make a moral choice and answer the question: what price are you willing to pay for victory?