Icelandic sisters ├Бr├│ra and ├Нsafold live in different countries and arenтАШt on speaking terms, but when their mother loses contact with ├Нsafold, ├Бr├│ra reluctantly returns to Iceland to find her sister. But she soon realises that her sister isnтАЩt avoiding her . . . she has disappeared. As she confronts ├НsafoldтАЩs abusive, drug-dealing boyfriend Bj├╢rn, and begins to probe her sisterтАЩs reclusive neighbours, ├Бr├│ra is led into an ever-darker web of intrigue and manipulation. Baffled by the conflicting details of her sisterтАЩs life, and blinded by the shiveringly bright midnight sun of the Icelandic summer, ├Бr├│ra enlists the help of police officer Dan├нel, as she tries to track her sisterтАЩs movements, and begins to tail Bj├╢rn - but she isnтАЩt the only one watching . . .