Does SARS-CoV-2 show the limits of Sweden’s special way for the first time? Markus Lanz travels to Sweden in the winter of 2020/2021, a country whose self-confidence seems to be under attack for the first time. The debate about the price of personal freedom deeply divides society and reveals negative sides in many other areas of life that many Swedes were not aware of before the pandemic, or at least did not want to see.

WRITER & DIRECTOR: Silke Gondolf CAMERA: Ole Jürgens, Mattias Flink EDITOR: Martin Kayser-Landwehr SOUND: David Matthias Kreitschmann COMMISSIONING EDITOR: Stefan Bayerl (ZDF), Henning Brekenkamp (ZDF)