politically hypercorrect attempt to make news comments

Both of the people who have reviewed this point out the self-righteous and implausible streak of the movie. I agree, but the reason is, I think, that Hobert was aiming to make political comment on a hot topic (I'm a native, so I can remember the background) and didn't have the nerve or the brains to go through with it.

In a time of grave economic downhill slide, mass unemployment and a sense of change of values in the air, the policies on immigration and how to deal with illegal immigrants to Sweden became stricter during the 1990s. This aroused much discussion but not a lot of real political resistance to the trend. There were some raids of police on people or groups, even religious communities, who were hiding refugees on the run, and the story of Mikael and Catti roughly parallels and dramatizes those incidents. Unfortunately, Hobert doesn't manage to locate the evil within the "normal" bureaucracy in a plausible way, instead he resorts to thorughly thuggish neo-nazi groups as the spearhead of the aggression against the foreigners: this robbed the movie of any real political significance and turned it into a sentimental and implausible tearjerker drama. The nurse who helps the couple (Endre) and who is herself pulled into the vortex of danger of course symbolizes our duty to make our own moral choices and stand up. Unfortunately, this parable doesn't work. A few years later, a critic commented "Richard Hobert's movies pretend to take place in Sweden: in reality, they are set in Richard Hobert-land"