Life Overtakes Me
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Sweden, United States · 2019
39m
Director Kristine Samuelson
Starring Henry Ascher, Nadja Hatem, Mikael Billing, Karl Sallin
Genre Documentary
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Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.
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