Can one deny or even erase their own past? Greenland in 2020: An island becoming increasingly green, the eternal ice dramatically melting. The young sculptor Jonathan Querido sets off from Germany to his old homeland and must confront his own dark secret. What happened nine years ago that led to the break with his old life still causes him panic today. What has become of his father, his old friends, and his first love Maalia, after everyone declared him missing and dead? What really happened back then on the cruise ship MS Alaska from Greenland to Hamburg?.