This year, it is Jacob Widman's turn to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics. There is only one problem, he is dead. His four closest friends decide to keep his death a secret so that he can leave this world as a Noble Prize laureate.
This year, it is Jacob Widman's turn to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics. But five days before the announcement, he is discovered dead at home. His four closest friends decide to keep his death a secret until after the announcement so that he can leave this world as a Noble Prize laureate.
But each of the four has their own ulterior motives for keeping him alive and seeing him become a laureate. Motives which, as they are gradually uncovered, dredge up old antagonisms between the four friends which in fact have been there ever since they all first met as students in 1970s Stockholm.
The gang soon learns that it's harder to keep the dead alive than they had anticipated. Before the five days are out, their friend's body will have been run over, burnt and lost completely. And our heroes, who must constantly keep under the police radar, will have managed to fit in a 70th birthday celebration, a faked heart attack, a divorce and a budding romance. Not to mention a very stressful extortion situation.
The story is told with sharp wit and slapstick humour, but not without space for depth and reflection. What does it mean to be a human and a friend in your 70s? Is it still possible to change and can old mistakes be put right? How should we spend the time we have left and how can we live on after death? What will be our legacy here on Earth?
Finally! is a four-episode comedy series which interweaves the will power and the weaknesses of its four protagonists into the comic situation that arises when they must hide a dead body and convince the whole world that he remains alive.With references both to the academic world in Sweden and to cracks in the Swedish welfare state, the show finds humour in both privilege and prejudice.
Quite simply, it is a story of life and death.
