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Framed around an idea with great potential, this routine melodrama by Swedish director Arne Sucksdorff does not quite live up to its central concept. Gote (Tomas Bolne) is a young teen who seems to be at odds with his family and may not know his own mind that well either. Discontented and rebellious, Gote joins up with two mean-spirited game poachers in spite of the fact that he loves animals and nature. This contradiction between his own feelings and his need to rebel reaches a climax when a forest ranger starts to track down the young men in ever-tightening circles.