LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

There are no vampires in Blackeberg. Only ordinary people live here, trying to survive. Or do they?..

Winter of 1981 in a working-class suburb of Stockholm. People stream through the subway, teenagers sniff glue in the basement, bitter drunks sulk in a Chinese restaurant. Twelve-year-old Oskar sits reading horror novels. He dreams of becoming an avenger to finally take revenge on his school tormentors. In the neighboring Vällingby, a boy is murdered with extraordinary brutality. Life in Blackeberg is about to change, gradually pulling everyone involved into an incomprehensible ominous whirl. But for Oskar, everything is different: he meets his first love, a girl named Eli, who recently moved to his hometown…