Three mothers. One crash. Zero easy answers. Friendship has never been this brutal.
46 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestWhat would've seemed like a nightmare a couple of months ago are now their everyday. How do you move on, and how do you adapt?
A late-night phone call changes everything for Ebba, My and Gloria. The news that their sons have been involved in a serious car crash puts their friendship and priorities to the ultimate test
Acting
Sofia Helin's face does more acting than most careers.
Direction
Emma Broström makes silence scream louder than dialogue.
Writing
Mothers as messy, selfish, real — not martyrs.
Creator
Emma Broström
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Swedish 'mammas' rarely get portrayed this unflatteringly; Broström deliberately rejects the 'sacred mother' trope.
The title's double meaning — purgatory state and the children's ward 'limbo' — wasn't accidental; Broström wrote it after her own hospital vigil.
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