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MILLA
PEDERSEN
Natalie Lind
PEDERSEN
Natalie Lind
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The 17 year old daughter of Mette’s hosts. A clever, contemplative girl who, in Mette’s own words, is “too bright for this place”, meaning too intelligent and extraordinary for H. She spends most of her time over summer reading (having brought home a whole stack of books on Ancient Greece from the local library) and hanging out with her friend, Line, a boy-crazy classmate. Herself, she doesn’t show much interest in dating or partying beyond what is expected of her in order to fit in and she is immediately attracted to Mette’s refusal of H.’s norms. The two girls develop a deep-rooted friendship with romantic undertones and learn a lot from each other. They bond over their shared love of Sappho.
MAIKEN
JUHL
Lizzy Caplan
JUHL
Lizzy Caplan
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Mette's ex-girlfriend, three years older than her. Relationship spanned from Mette was 19 and started university till a year later, the longest committed relationship either of them has had. Is currently in a new on/off relationship with another member of their Sappho Circle, the pretentious artist/writer, Amalie. Together, they are working on a new multi-media re-working of Sappho's fragments. Studied classical philology at university and has just finished her master's dissertation. Currently unemployed, should go into teaching to secure herself a job, but wants to translate full-time or nothing.
Erik Pedersen, the father of the house, photographer and owner of the only local photo studio. Mid-forties.
Irene Pedersen, the mother of the house, timid but well-meaning, mother figure. Kindergarten teacher. Early forties.
history.
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.
summary.
About to enter the first semester of her visual media master’s at the university of A., largest city in Jutland, Denmark, Mette needs to finance her upcoming years of studies and takes a job over the summer in a small town in Western Jutland, H., because it pays well and feels like an adventure. Here, she lives with the owner of the local photo studio, running errands for him and helping in the store while sleeping in the attic of his house.
She becomes friends with his 17 year old daughter, Milla, who lives an unremarkable life under the heavy expectations of her father, who wants her to become a journalist, rather than the poet she wants to be. Together, the two girls develop a sisterhood through their shared love of Sappho, and Milla is inspired by the outspoken, confident and openly lesbian Mette to find herself.
Mette falls in love with Milla, but doesn’t get romantically involved with her, knowing she has a responsibility as the older party and that summer soon will end.
Later, they meet again when Milla moves to A. to study literature and creative writing at the university there, having decided to pursue writing rather than journalism, thanks to the other girl.
On her part, Mette still has the pictures she took of Milla during that summer and they reconnect over the shared memories.
She becomes friends with his 17 year old daughter, Milla, who lives an unremarkable life under the heavy expectations of her father, who wants her to become a journalist, rather than the poet she wants to be. Together, the two girls develop a sisterhood through their shared love of Sappho, and Milla is inspired by the outspoken, confident and openly lesbian Mette to find herself.
Mette falls in love with Milla, but doesn’t get romantically involved with her, knowing she has a responsibility as the older party and that summer soon will end.
Later, they meet again when Milla moves to A. to study literature and creative writing at the university there, having decided to pursue writing rather than journalism, thanks to the other girl.
On her part, Mette still has the pictures she took of Milla during that summer and they reconnect over the shared memories.