Life Overtakes Me

About the movie

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.

Director

Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas

Age rating (US)

Not available

Cast

• Henry AscherHimself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)
• Nadja HatemHerself - Immigration Attorney
• Mikael BillingHimself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit
• Karl SallinHimself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)
• Elizabeth HultcrantzHerself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)