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What’s important to know about Mette is that she’s on her own. She moved out by herself when she was sixteen, thinking she’d suffered her share of Hell, living with a controlling, aggressive, pseudo-alcoholic father and having lost her mother when she was ten. Since then, she’s had no family except her found one. Girlfriends, rotating, ex-girlfriends who became friends, sometimes friends with benefits, actual friends from school (she graduated gymnasium with average to good grades, went on to university where she has just finished a bachelor in visual arts and photography) and mentor figures wherever she could find them. Mette depends on the people she stumbles across as she makes her way through the uneven landscape of life. In return, they can depend on her. Once you’re in the in-crowd with her, she will die and kill for you.
She lives and studies in A., the second largest city in Denmark and biggest city in Jutland. Here she splits her time between university, various odd jobs, most of them vaguely relevant for her studies, and her group of friends, all of them queer people, most of whom she’s slept with. She labels herself lesbian and frequents a community of creative women who read and translate and re-interpret Sappho’s poetry in an almost religious community. Sappho has been a beacon for Mette since she discovered her at age barely seventeen. She owns an old copy of her poems that has followed her since she moved into her first apartment. It’s holier than the Bible.
Having gotten her bachelor’s degree, she is spending the summer working in a small town, H., an hour’s drive away, helping out at the local photo studio, before taking her master’s in visual media. In H., she lives with the owner of the photo studio, sleeping in his attic, for two months adopting his wife as a surrogate mother and their seventeen year old daughter as a spiritual sister who will follow her onwards in life.
Finally a person who makes her feel less alone in the world.
She lives and studies in A., the second largest city in Denmark and biggest city in Jutland. Here she splits her time between university, various odd jobs, most of them vaguely relevant for her studies, and her group of friends, all of them queer people, most of whom she’s slept with. She labels herself lesbian and frequents a community of creative women who read and translate and re-interpret Sappho’s poetry in an almost religious community. Sappho has been a beacon for Mette since she discovered her at age barely seventeen. She owns an old copy of her poems that has followed her since she moved into her first apartment. It’s holier than the Bible.
Having gotten her bachelor’s degree, she is spending the summer working in a small town, H., an hour’s drive away, helping out at the local photo studio, before taking her master’s in visual media. In H., she lives with the owner of the photo studio, sleeping in his attic, for two months adopting his wife as a surrogate mother and their seventeen year old daughter as a spiritual sister who will follow her onwards in life.
Finally a person who makes her feel less alone in the world.