Stockholm, the fifties. Though academically bright, violent pupil Erik Ponti is expelled from his state school with the headmasterâs words âthereâs only one word for people like you â evil⊠what you need is a good thrashing, and moreâ. In fact already Erik frequently receives a âgoodâ thrashing at the hands of his sadistic stepfather â so he is packed off by his mother to boardingschool