Björn Andrésen

In 1970, filmmaker Luchino Visconti sought the "most beautiful boy in the world" to cast in his adaptation of Death in Venice. In Stockholm, he discovered Björn Andrésen, a shy 15-year-old teenager. Fifty years later, Björn looks back at his life, the personal memories and tragic events in what could be Bjorn's last attempt to finally get his life back on track and make peace with his past.

Abroad on holiday, composer Gustav Aschenbach is reserved and civilized.But when he glimpses someone who inspires him to giveway to a secretpassion, it foreshadows his doom.