TOH! Exclusive Look: 'Simon and the Oaks': We follow young intellectual outsider Simon, who grows up in a loving working class family on the outskirts of Gothenberg and gains admission to an upper-class grammar school. He learns about culture from Isak, the son of a wealthy Jewish bookseller (Jan Josef Leifers), who has fled Nazi persecution in Germany. Isak helps Simon's dad (Stefan Godicke) make boats. Eventually as war rages over Europe, the two households slowly merge.
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