Life Overtakes Me
Genre: Documentary, Short
Actor: Henry Ascher, Nadja Hatem, Mikael Billing
Director: John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson
Country: Sweden, United States
Quality: HD
Duration: 39m
Release: 2019
Tags: refugee, childhood trauma
IMDb: 6.5/10
In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children who have fled extreme trauma with their families face an uncertain future and the threat of deportation. Under this pressure, some withdraw from the world into a coma-like condition known as Resignation Syndrome, or uppgivenhetssyndrom, remaining frozen and unresponsive for months or even years.

