Let the Right One IN

LÅT DEN RÄTTE KOMMA IN is a story both violent and highly romantic, set in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1981. Oskar is 12 and being bullied. His sadistic classmates Conny, Martin and Andreas torment him beyond reason. Oskar has recurring fantasies about revenge, about being strong, about defiance. One evening he is standing in the playground jabbing his knife into a tree, whispering the name of his tormentors. Suddenly, a girl is standing on the climbing frame – a girl his own age whom he has never seen before. Her name is Eli and she is full of contradictions – her wise look, her strange smell, that fact that she is wearing such thin clothing, her neglected and skinny – yet so beautiful – appearance. In the days that follow, Oskar and Eli clumsily reach out to one another. They meet at the playground after dark. Their friendship grows into love, and Eli becomes the first real hope in Oskar’s life. But there are complications: Eli is not like other people – she can’t be in sunlight, she can’t eat food, and to come into a room she needs to be invited. Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when he realizes that Eli needs to drink other peoples' blood to live he’s faced with a choice. How much can love forgive?