Simon and the Oaks (Swedish: Simon och ekarna) is a Swedish drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 9 December 2011,[1] directed by Lisa Ohlin and starring Bill Skarsgård.

[3] The film is about Simon (Bill Skarsgård), growing up in a working-class family on the outskirts of Gothenburg during World War II.

Against his parents' approval, he seeks education in the arts, normally not attended by members of the working class at the time.

There he meets Isaak (Karl Linnertorp), the son of a wealthy Jewish bookseller who fled persecution in Nazi Germany.

At the end of the war, it becomes clear to Simon that his life, family and his very identity will no longer be the same.