Pure

Plot

20-year-old Katarina (Alicia Vikander) finds solace in Mozart's music despite the difficult circumstances she lives in. Her mother is an alcoholic, and she relies on her boyfriend Mattias (Martin Wallström) for support. Despite having little in common, Mattias accompanies Katarina to a classical concert to fulfil her love for Mozart. However, after a fight with some students, Katarina loses her job at the school and finds herself wandering aimlessly.

By chance, she ends up at the municipal concert hall, where she is mistaken for a job seeker and invents a dramatic story about her mother. This leads to her being hired as a receptionist. Katarina pretends to be the daughter of an Australian concert pianist who died from cancer. As she immerses herself in the world of classical music, she becomes distant from both Mattias and her mother. She starts having an affair with Adam, a married conductor.

Eventually, Katarina is promoted to a higher position in the youth department of the concert hall. She breaks up with Mattias, who throws her out, but Adam breaks up with her as well as his wife returns. Katarina loses her job as Adam is pressuring her supervisor to fire her. She is sleeping in the street. Katarina begs for her job back to Adam but he laughs at her. In rage, she pushes him from the window while he was smoking.

After his death, considered as accidental as he used to smoke on the window edge, she is back at work. She is attending a concert surrounding by children and teenagers.

Cast

Alicia Vikander as Katarina

Samuel Fröler as Adam

Martin Wallström as Mattias

Josephine Bauer as Birgitta

Helén Söderqvist Henriksson as personnel manager

Kim Lantz as janitor

Frederik Nilsson as Henrik

Elisabeth Göransson as Agneta, social secretary

Ylva Gallon as nurse

Anna Åström as Cicci

Magnus Lindberg as Nille