In Your Arms

Maria is a young nurse. She lives an isolated life in Copenhagen, with the longing for freedom and emotional redemption. She has a special connection to Niels, a young man, who suffers of a terminal illness and lives in the nursing home where Maria works – maybe because of his similar wish to keep distance to the surrounding world.

With the disease eating him up, the sorrow and powerlessness towards the illness grows to a crucial wish to take control over his own life – by actively choosing death. When Niels’ family declines to help him with his wish of dying, Maria accepts to accompany him to Switzerland, where he can get professional help to end his life.

Together Maria and Niels embark on an intense journey, that brings them closer together and closer to their dreams about life, death and what is in between.