Then: In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled behind the National Theatre, a rough and dangerous area of the city known as "the shadow district". Now: A 90-year-old man who is smothered with his own pillow has old newspaper cuttings of the shadow district murder. Why, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? How are these cases linked across the decades?
Set in wartime Reykjavik.