We have followed different people and life stories around the Baltic Sea area for five years,
all with different relationships to the ocean. Both people who live off the ocean and people who couldn't care less.

A seal guides us under our common waters, showing us our effect on life beneath the surface.
We soar across the sky with an eagle, gazing down on all other fates.
Linking everyone together in one sweeping movement. A newborn baby girl will be our timekeeper.
 

Photography: Mattias Klum & The Half Way Film

 

"Waves hitting the rocks. 
Storm and foaming water. Seagulls cry. 
We sense a female face in ecstasy, eyes shut. 
A swelling tear glistens. A blissful moan. 
A scene of human desire. 
The sea calms. A pleasant voice. 
Everything he says sound like poetry. 
He is our guide throughout the film. 
The voice speaks as if everything is definite, even things we do not know of.
He speaks of happiness and of the ocean, he speaks of life and importance. 
He speaks of passion and why we are alive. 
Why we want to live.
The sea again. Archipelago. 
Flying closely between islands. 
He speaks of this place on earth, this place for mankind. 
This sea. The Baltic Sea. 
A baby eagle hatches and climbs out of its shell. 
The adult eagle treads lightly in the nest. 
A newborn baby seal suckles its first meal ever. 
Life."
 

This more condensed and highly poetic approach will serve as a complete film on its own and will hopefully
set high expectations for the longer, more epic film presented five years later. We are introducing a very
personal narrative from where the history unfolds along the way. A change in perspective from the
longer film, more free in structure and associative.