By the Lake

After having served a prison sentence of 2 years, after drunk driving, which caused a fatal accident, 29-year-old Martin Gaup has now been out for the past three years.
Guiltridden and with issues with his dad, it feels like two-step forward and one step back.
He lives in a house by the shore, in the outskirts of the woods, where he spends his days fishing and smoking his hauls for his brother’s market sale, and maintaining the house, garden and the ground around him.

Martin is a bit of a hermit.
He doesn’t like to be near other people if he can avoid it, so when a new neighbour in the house downhill moves in, and his teenage daughter starts to hang around his place, uninvited, and chatters his ears off, it’s first a bit of a challenge for him. The girl is very persistent though and quickly he accepts that she’s there, and after a few days he begins to look forward to her visits. He begins to open up and he slowly begins to bond with the young girl.

Little by little, Martin goes back to a normal life, finding friends, joining the working market again and who knows, perhaps he will also find love?

30-year old David and his 16-year-old daughter, Stina, have moved into the little brown cottage down the hill from Martin. They are both grieving the loss of their wife and mother, Louise, who died 9 months before the story begins.
They are not good at talking to each other about their individual grieves.
Stina doesn’t want to bother her dad since he is dealing with his grief too, and David thinks he has to keep his grief to himself, being the adult one.

“By the lake,”  tells a story of how three grieving people can bond and together find a path of healing and together improve their lives.