Former pro cyclist Kim Karlsen (39) holds a press conference admitting use of performance enhancing drugs in her career. Rather than accepting the consequences of her actions, our antiheroine sticks to her guns and refuses to alter her mindset.
Hjelperytteren is a Norwegian feature film from 2019 written and directed by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen. The film is a drama film–black comedy starring Silje Salomonsen as the former professional cyclist Kim Karlsen, who, several years after she quit, admits to having used EPO as a performance-enhancing drug during her successful career.