Drinking

A person is born missing 0.5‰ alcohol in their blood to be happy. Time to fix that. A cruel Nordic comedy where, in the end, people dance… But at what cost?!

Four friends—high school teachers of history, music, physical education, and psychology—have long since given up on their life goals and dreams in both their professional and personal lives. Burnout has caught up with them, and they survive in the monotonous stereotype of daily obligations. Until one day, at the 40th birthday celebration of the youngest among them, they learn about the peculiar theory of a Norwegian philosopher. It claims that a person is born with a deficit of half a per mille of alcohol in their blood. If they topped it up, their life would immediately become more colourful, they would have much greater self-confidence, be more creative, and overall more satisfied and happy. Given the stagnation of their lives in both professional and personal spheres, and their long-standing resignation from all their life goals and dreams, they decide to test this thought experiment in practice. After all, there must be something to it—Winston Churchill, Arthur Rimbaud, Ernest Hemingway, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jackson Pollock, Charles Bukowski, and many others practically had alcohol in their blood constantly. So Martin, Nikolaj, Peter, and Tommy buy alcohol and breathalysers. The experiment can begin. It seems the theory actually works. So why not increase the doses? Logically, all those positive results should intensify. And then all that remains is to reach what is called the "sweet spot."