Finnish Lapland 1944: a young soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison
camp. Surrounded by cruelty and death he struggles to hold onto his humanity. When peace comes
the crimes are buried beneath the snow and ice. A few years later journalist Inkeri is
assigned to investigate the rapid development of remote Western Lapland. Her real motivation is
more personal: she is following a lead on her husband who disappeared during the war. Finding
a small community riven with tension and suspicious of outsiders Inkeri slowly begins to
uncover traces of disturbing facts that were never supposed to come to light. From this starkly
beautiful polar landscape emerges a story of silenced histories and ongoing oppression of
human brutality and survival.--Provided by publisher.
