Slippery Slope

It could have been so wonderful, but just as singer-songwriter Gustav Gundesson is about to receive the prestigious Polar Music Prize, his career collapses. Companions: inside turn against him. Cultural appropriation and racism, abuse, manipulation and exploitation are the accusations. The fact that the self-image of the artist, who is all too convinced of himself, looks different is irrelevant. One thing is certain: the award ceremony is canceled and Gustav’s career is declared over indefinitely. But once Cancel Culture has emerged, it unfolds as a chain reaction. No one is really safe from it: not Sky, Gustav’s former and now much more successful band colleague and lover, not his wife Klara, the unscrupulous editor-in-chief of a major newspaper, and not Klara’s investigative colleague Stanka, who likes to go over the top. …