The heist of an armored car at the Landvetter Airport resulted in the loss of four million Euros, which have not been recovered even though the police know the identities of the five robbers. At least four of the robbers have no idea where the money has been stashed, believing that leader Tommy has made off with the money to Sri Lanka. When Tommy's girlfriend Estelle (Moa Gammel, LAPLAND ODYSSEY) returns to Lapland with their daughter Isabel (Inez Buckner) a year later, she is stopped by the police (AS IT IS IN HEAVEN's Ingela Olsson and EASY MONEY's Alexander Stocks) for questioning and they confiscate an urn of ashes for DNA testing to find out of it is the remains of Tommy. When she discovers that co-conspirator Rikard - who was supposed to transfer Tommy's share to her - has been murdered, Estelle rushes to the hiding place of the money only to discover it empty. Suspecting accomplice Bobby (Ola Rapace, I AM YOURS) of hoarding the money since he has been living it up in Tommy's absence, she leaves her daughter with her sister Blanca (singer Lykke Li) and struts right into the lion's dean threatening Tommy's return if he does not come up with the one million Euro share. Bobby is extremely rattled while Rikard's brother Matte (Alexej Manvelov) is skeptical. When the police warn Estelle that the papers will be publishing news of Tommy's death, she spins the story to Tommy's former contacts and sets about turning the other members of the gang against each other and turning the city into a war zone. Tommy may very well not be dead, but can the threat of his presence behind the scenes save Estelle from betrayal by one of the few she thought she could trust?

A more conventional sophomore effort from former TV documentary filmmaker Tarik Saleh following his animated feature debut METROPIA, TOMMY is a sleek and tense thriller that rarely condescends to Hollywood action cliches. It's somewhat choppy structure seems only partially designed to keep the viewer on edge, and is fairly shallow on character development despite wanting to appear to be character-driven. Performances more so than scripting keep the viewer engaged with Rapace and particularly Johan Rabaeus (EVIL [ONDSKAN]) - as the connected godfather of Estelle's daughter - particularly memorable. The film's opening credits are accompanied by Enya's "Boadicea" (last heard on film stateside on the Stephen King-authored SLEEPWALKERS).