On a summer’s evening in 1984, a five-year-old boy vanishes in rural southern Sweden. The police investigation fails to find the truth, leaving behind rumours, suspicion and a grieving family. Twenty years later, the boy’s older sister Vera is leading a group therapy session in Stockholm, when a young man describes a strangely familiar childhood memory of a disappearance. A shaken Vera travels home to her fractured family to uncover, once and for all, what really happened in the summer that never ended. 

“It's incredibly exciting that End of Summer will become a TV series. I’ve worked on this with Harmonica Films for a long time, and with Viaplay we’ve now made it happen. End of Summer is my first book to be filmed, and for personal reasons the story is very close to my heart. I’ve read the script and seen the cast list, and I’m very confident that this will be something really special”, says Anders de la Motte.

End of Summer is directed by Jens Jonsson (Young Wallander) and Henrik Georgsson (The Bridge) based on a script by head writers Björn Carlström (Hunters) och Stefan Thunberg (Wallander). Episode writers are Axel Stjärne, Jimmy Nivrén Olsson and Pontus Edvinsson. The series is produced by Harmonica Films’ Per Janérus (Hunters), with Tim King at SF Studios and Helena Larand at Viaplay Group as executive producers. SF Studios and Film i Skåne are co-producers. Worldwide sales are handled by Viaplay Content Distribution.

“We are very happy for our collaboration with Harmonica Films and for the opportunity to produce this exciting thriller series together for Viaplay. With a strong story translated into 30 different languages ​​by one of our most popular crime writers and with all the talent in the project, we are confident that this will be a success both in the Nordics and internationally”, says”, says Tim King, EVP Production at SF Studios.

End of Summer will premiere exclusively on Viaplay in 2023.

For more information, please contact: 
Per Janérus, Producer, Harmonica Films, per@harmonicafilms.se, +46 70 842 37 00
Malin Strihagen, Vice President Brand & Communications, SF Studios, malin.strihagen@sfstudios.se, +46 70 780 39 35

About SF Studios
SF Studios, established in 1919, is one of the world’s oldest film companies. Today SF Studios is the leading film studio in the Nordic region with its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden and offices in Oslo, Copenhagen, Helsinki and London. The company is producing and distributing feature films and TV series as well as providing the streaming service SF Anytime. SF Studios is part of the leading Nordic media company Bonnier.