As the fog enveloped the islands in a world of its own, Eigil Tvibur grew up in a wooden house by the ice-blue fjord in the Faroe Islands, surrounded by fishermen and whalers. His ancestors had lived here too, but like them, he has always remained an outsider. Is it because he made an unforgivable mistake thirty years ago? Or is the reason rooted in his family history? Eigil begins to investigate.