Katarina (20) fears she will end up like her mother: unemployed, broke, and alcoholic. Prospects in the poor outer suburbs of Gothenburg are few, but her discovery of Mozart’s Requiem leads to a love affair with music, a job at a concert hall, and possibly a new life…

A film debut about class, power, art, love and the Internet age, Pure touched a sensitive nerve on the festival circuit. And actress Alicia Vikander (A Royal Affair), who stars as a closed, tormented young woman, proves to be a talent to watch.