Johan is an ordinary Dane with his own story. He functions well and has a good job. But right now he is on sick leave, after a bad fall at work. Patrick comes by all the time and wants to drink beer and listen to music just like the old days. His sister Liv also comes all the time wanting to help. Because he is not doing any better. Far from it! And now, he is fired. But he does not really care. He is actually happy, because Sofi appears and she is lovely. Now Johan is falling again. He is falling in love with Sofi, in love with love and freedom. He falls to temptation. Then he throws himself headlong into free fall and floating around all rules and standards of the system and expectations of the rest of the world. Checkmate is a story about a man who is falling and does not want to be rescued. It is a story of destiny about a collapse where illness, paragraphs and coercion are hovering in competition with forgiveness, charity and brotherhood.
