Newcastle
Film Society

The year is 1402. Margrete has achieved what no man has managed before. She has gathered Denmark, Norway, and Sweden into a peace-oriented union.

But the union is beset by enemies, so Margrete is planning a marriage between Erik, her adopted son, and an English princess.

An alliance with England should secure the union’s status as an emerging European power, but a breathtaking conspiracy is underway that could tear everything apart.

On the eve of the engagement between Erik and Princess Philippa, daughter of England’s Henry IV, news breaks that the Queen’s biological son, King Olaf, has returned from the dead.

This piercing character study carries a contemporary poignancy, as it encapsulates the difficult choices a female leader has to make in a world bounded by patriarchal control.