Produced by Bokomotiv - De Geer & Olsson AB with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ film commissioner Hjalmar Palmgren in co-operation with IKON - Story AB for SVT Dokumentary.

‘As a child you may feel a bit isolated. You look at things, touch them and work out combinations. New data may be quite shocking. Myself, I didn't wake up until I was well over twenty. I read a book by Georg Borgström on the Earth's growing population. We would run out of food. By the time I was thirty, Earth would be hopelessly overpopulated.’

A guy clad in black is walking the streets pondering the predictions about the Earth’s impending destruction he heard as a young man. Was professor Borgström right in the nineteen sixties? What is this strange campaign littering streets and parks in the twenty-first century?

He’s surrounded by leaflets whirling around with texts like ‘What is a Man? What are many Men? You can break the code. You can get a map of humanity.’

Is it information? Is it propaganda? Is it advertising? The guy finds a map, follows it and finds himself involved in a nasty, scientific experiment.

‘Read the Map’ can be interpreted as a story of the Left’s disappointment. On the surface, at first it’s a documentary and then an adventure story, the details of which seem to be inspired by Franz Kafka and Fritz Lang.