Season 1 • Episode 3
LatestPete finds that moving to another country is not as easy as he thought. Struggling with the language and not being able to work takes it’s toll on the relationship. Tragedy strikes.
Pete, an eighteen year old Isle of Wight deck chair attendant, meets fifteen gear old Swedish exchange student Annika. After a holiday romance, he follows her back to Sweden.
Acting
Jesse Birdsall's desperate earnestness sells the whole thing.
Production
Isle of Wight vs. Sweden: two worlds, one beige aesthetic.
Creator
Colin Nutley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Colin Nutley later became Sweden's most successful English-language director, making this his accidental origin story.
The 1984 Anglo-Swedish romance reflected Thatcher-era working-class fantasies of European escape—Pete literally runs from deck chairs to welfare-state possibility.
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