A narrow road runs over a mountain down into a small town at the bottom of a beautiful fjord. It is the dead of winter. The radio blares a weather forecast of a blizzard in the area. As a ferry carrying 300 passengers from Denmark pulls into the town’s small port, the storm starts hitting. The ferry can’t leave until the storm passes. The storm becomes a blizzard, hitting the town with such force that visibility is totally gone and everything is white. The road into town is barricaded with snow and is completely blocked.A badly mutilated body washes on shore. It’s an unidentifiable man who was clearly murdered only a few hours earlier. The local police chief, Andri Olafsson, descends on the scene and realizes a killer is amongst them. As word spreads, order disintegrates into chaos as the ferry’s passengers and the town’s residents realize they are all possible suspects and all in danger. With the town’s population unexpectedly doubled, food and resources become scarce and cracks are exposed in the social fabric that has kept the town together for a hundred years. In trying to solve the murder, Andri will soon confront human trafficking, sexual assault, vandalism and theft as he tries to keep the town in one piece. Andri moved to this middle of nowhere for the sake of his wife and two daughters, sacrificing a promising career with the Reykjavík Police Department. Now divorced, Andri is trying his best to take care of his girls while hoping his wife will return. This investigation will push his wife away even further and his girls’ safety will be comprimised.Trapped in a dead end job, trapped in a dead end town, trapped with no way out, Andri is now faced with the biggest challenge of his career and the biggest challenge of his life. Over the next 12 days, he gradually discovers an intricate web of secrets and deceit sewn deep into the core of the community. As he untangles the sordid past, truth becomes stranger than fiction and not everyone will escape alive