Plot Summary
Palm Springs International Screenplay Awards:
“A gripping, thematically resonant Nordic noir that marries closed-circle suspense with a chilling indictment of childhood complicity... This is a strong candidate for a prestige genre feature or limited series.”
On a frozen February night 2001, thirteen former classmates travel to a remote island in the outer Stockholm archipelago – for what seems like an innocent reunion. The boat leaves them at 6 PM and won’t return until 2 AM.
The ice still lingers, but won’t hold.
With no cell phone coverage, they are cut off in total darkness for eight hours.
Each arrives with a reason – curiosity, guilt, desire, revenge. As laughter and wine flow, old wounds surface. Flashbacks reveal a class where humiliation became ritual, silence was complicity, and cruelty left wounds that never healed.
What begins as nostalgia soon turns into suspicion. When one disappears and another is found dead, everything comes to a head.
Everyone has scars. Everyone has a motive. And someone has not come to remember – but to take revenge.
Final Reunion is a psychological thriller that blends Nordic isolation with the haunting weight of childhood cruelty. A story where silence can be deadly – and where the truth, revealed at the very end, will shock audiences.
The ice still lingers, but won’t hold.
With no cell phone coverage, they are cut off in total darkness for eight hours.
Each arrives with a reason – curiosity, guilt, desire, revenge. As laughter and wine flow, old wounds surface. Flashbacks reveal a class where humiliation became ritual, silence was complicity, and cruelty left wounds that never healed.
What begins as nostalgia soon turns into suspicion. When one disappears and another is found dead, everything comes to a head.
Everyone has scars. Everyone has a motive. And someone has not come to remember – but to take revenge.
Final Reunion is a psychological thriller that blends Nordic isolation with the haunting weight of childhood cruelty. A story where silence can be deadly – and where the truth, revealed at the very end, will shock audiences.
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About the Writer
Staffan von Zeipel is a Swedish screenwriter focused on psychological thrillers and speculative science fiction. With a background in storytelling, communications, and visual design, he crafts emotionally grounded, high-concept screenplays. The Nevada Battle is his international debut, and he has also written the thriller Återträffen / Final Reunion, available in both Swedish and English.