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Based on the best-selling novel by Noa Yedlin, just days before potentially fulfilling his lifelong ambition, Avishai Sar-Shalom - a leading contender for this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics - is found dead in his bed, after apparently suffering a cardiac arrest. His four closest friends, who have known him for the past 50 years, make an extraordinary decision together to help him achieve his life's dream posthumously.
Instead of burying yet another soon-to-be-forgotten professor of economics – what if they could bury a Nobel Prize winner? What if they could keep him “alive” - in other words, hide his death - for five days, allowing him to “die” with an extraordinary honor to his name? They agree to go for it – it seems like a relatively simple task. But, as their quest to keep Avishai’s death a secret unfolds, it quickly turns into an overwhelmingly complicated challenge.
In an age when people live longer and have better lives, Stockholm offers a refreshing perspective on this fascinating age group. These silver surfers are up-to-date, with plenty of free time, and in good health. Regrets are burning a hole in their bones and they have no intention of wasting the time they have left, passively waiting for death.
This dark comedy breaks stereotypes and conventional assumptions, as our septuagenarians' friendship, family, loyalty, professionalism, love, and lust are all put to the test – and the results are not what we may imagine…