Sebastian falls in love with Andreas, who reciprocates his affection. That wouldn't be unusual in itself if Sebastian wasn't transgender. That's when the difficulties begin, namely those of classification: what does “transgender” mean? And what happens when a self-declared heterosexual loves a person who consciously avoids the binary gender constraint system? Andreas loves the woman in the young man - she bears the name Ellie, who in turn does not want to be confined to femininity alone. Sebastian/Ellie wants to be what he/she is: both! So a battle breaks out: for love, for identity and sexual orientation, for the space that is possible. Once again, the compulsion to be unambiguous threatens destruction. So what breaks in the end? The person? Or the convention?
Something Must Break, which won the Tiger Award at this year's film festival in Rotterdam, tells of the longing for love in a body that is not wrong but does not fit the expectations placed on it. And as in the experimental documentary She Male Snails (2012), screenwriter and filmmaker Ester Martin Bergsmark, born in Stockholm in 1982, makes a plea for freedom. The freedom of not having to choose.
