Docs Ireland: Once You Shall Be One of Those Who Lived Long Ago

Beneath this Swedish town’s fading streets lies one of the world’s largest underground iron ore mines—an engine of both prosperity and disappearance.

In a small mining town in the north part of Sweden we witness a melancholic, humorous and sometimes absurd last epoch of a place. Beneath the town’s fading streets lies one of the world’s largest underground iron ore mines—an engine of both prosperity and disappearance. As the town faces its final days, it becomes a setting for deeply personal stories of loss, transition, and remembrance told trough a kaleidoscope of moments.