Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavk̕. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at the four walls of her shabby apartment. Celebrating Christmas and ringing in 1986 in the remote fishing hamlet of Skl̀ar seems like a small price to pay for a chance to earn some teaching credentials and get her life back on track. But Skl̀ar isnt just one of Icelands most isolated villages, it is home to just ten people. Unas only students are two girls aged seven and nine. Teaching them only occupies so many hours in a day and the few adults she interacts with are civil but distant. She only seems to connect with Thr̤, a man she shares an attraction with but who is determined to keep her at arms length. As darkness descends throughout the bleak winter, Una finds herself more often than not in her rented attic spacethe site of a local legendary hauntingdrinking her loneliness away. She is plagued by nightmares of a little girl in a white dress singing a lullaby. And when a sudden tragedy echoes an event long buried in Skl̀ars past, the villagers become even more guarded, leaving a suspicious Una seeking to uncover a shocking truth thats been kept secret for generations.
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