Hippie dreams crash into Swiss reality—turns out freedom has a dark side, who knew?
58 minSeason 1 • Episode 5
LatestLulu, Chiara and Joe are on the verge of adulthood and dream of a world of freedom and equality. With the hippie wave everywhere, they see how their conservative village is lost among drugs, seeing the damage of excess and addiction.
Acting
Young cast captures that specific 20-year-old certainty.
Production
Swiss setting feels both gorgeous and quietly oppressive.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Swiss cinema rarely tackles its own counterculture; this series excavates a nationally repressed chapter of 1960s youth movements that mainstream Swiss history prefers to forget.
The directors cast two actors per lead role to capture the before/after of their summer—watch how Lulu's physicality literally changes between performers.
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