Character Relationship Map: ID:A

Characters

• Aliena / Ida (played by Tuva Novotny) — protagonist

  The starring role of this thriller, played by Tuva Novotny and billed under the dual name Aliena / Ida. The film received three Robert Award nominations, including Best Actress, Best Editor, and Best...

• Just (played by Flemming Enevold) — protagonist
• Martin (played by Carsten Bjørnlund) — supporting
• Pierre (played by Arnaud Binard) — supporting
• Ugo (played by Slavo Bulatovic) — minor
• Rosie (played by Finn Nielsen) — minor
• French cashier (played by Anne Christine Bech) — minor
• Ove (played by Henrik Prip) — minor

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Aliena / Ida → Martin (Family Siblings And Former Group Members) — Ida seeks Martin while trying to understand their shared past and his continued connection to the group.

  Ida is identified as Martin's sister. She later travels to Rotterdam to find him and recalls that they were involved with the group.

• Aliena / Ida → Just (Family Wife And Husband In Conflict) — Their long marriage is strained by Ida's memory loss and Just's jealousy and violence; Ida says he had become too violent for their former group.

  Ida is recognized as Just's wife, and Just says they had been together for fourteen years. He later accuses her of involvement with Pierre and attacks...

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Just → Martin (Alliance Former Rebel Group Members) — Their shared history in the group is complicated by Just's move toward a more violent crowd.

  Marietta warns Ida that Just and Martin were once involved in a rebel group that tortured people. Ida later says Just had become too violent for the o...

• Aliena / Ida → French cashier (Unknown Unspecified Connection) — No specific relationship is established in the supplied plot reference.

  The supplied plot reference does not describe a specific interaction or relationship between Ida and the French cashier.

• Aliena / Ida → Ove (Unknown Unspecified Connection) — No specific relationship is established in the supplied plot reference.

  The supplied plot reference does not describe a specific interaction or relationship between Ida and Ove.

• Aliena / Ida → Ugo (Narrative Intended Money Recipient) — Ida's belief in Ugo's humanitarian purpose motivates her to take and bring him the money, but his murder disrupts the plan.

  Ida explains that she took money intended to buy weapons for the Middle East because she believed Ugo would use it to help people. She had planned to...

• Aliena / Ida → Rosie (Alliance Supporter) — Rosie gives Ida a possible safe place and a way to leave, but Ida chooses to go to Rotterdam instead.

  After Ida is hospitalized, Rosie offers her shelter and a ticket.

• Aliena / Ida → Pierre (Alliance Temporary Protector) — Pierre shelters Ida in France and helps her escape the men searching for her.

  Pierre lets the injured, disoriented Ida stay at his inn and later helps her leave when strange men search for someone carrying a duffel bag.

Story Analysis

A woman with amnesia searches for her identity while uncovering violent political ties, a dangerous marriage, and the purpose of stolen money.

Plot Progression

1. A Stranger at the Inn — An injured woman arrives at a French inn with no memory and gives the name Aliena / Ida. News of nearby deaths and the search for a person with a duffel bag draw her into danger, and Pierre helps her...
2. A Past Reclaimed — Ida returns to Denmark and is recognized by Just, Marietta, and Martin. Her identity and long marriage are established, but the details of her past remain inaccessible to her.
3. Warnings and Violence — Marietta describes a violent political history involving Just and Martin, while Just rejects her account. Just's jealousy turns into an attack, and Ida is hospitalized and told she has lost the baby.
4. The Rotterdam Search — Rosie offers Ida shelter and a ticket, but Ida chooses to find Martin in Rotterdam. Travelling with him, she begins to recover memories of their involvement with the group.
5. The Money and the Uncertain End — Ida explains why she took the money and what she believed Ugo would do with it. She also says she had been meant to give it to Just, whose increasing violence made the old arrangement untenable; her d...