Equilibrium – Det er meg du skal elske / Equilibrium – It’s Me You Should Love

A group of young people from the city go on a short camping trip to the shore. They plan to eat, drink, dance, and flirt with each other. Both Nina and Kate are in love with the withdrawn young man Jan. But openly-gay dancer Roger also has a crush on him, and hopes that Jan will admit to being gay. Then Jan meets enigmatic Anna, a local girl who lives with her father in a luxurious house on the beach. He recognizes a kindred soul … Male homosexuality was a crime in Norway until 1972. “Equilibrium” unfolds as a complex psycho-gramme of a clique of young people, of which Roger is a full-fledged, accepted member. The film, too, acknowledges his lifestyle as an expression of human tenderness and love, of which his parents’ generation was and is not capable. With great sensitivity, it looks behind the hedonist façade of its young protagonists to lay bare feelings of loneliness and helplessness.