Life Overtakes Me

Life Overtakes Me (2019)

January 26th, 20190h 39min

Documentary
65%

Overview

Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.


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