Anne-Liis von Knorring

Life Overtakes Me

Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas

Henry Ascher, Nadja Hatem

Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.