Sent with her younger brother to Godoy Island to live with her aunt and grandfather after Germans bomb Norway in 1940, ten-year-old Merit longs to join her parents in the Resistance and when her aunt, a teacher, is taken away two years later, she resents even more the Nazis' presence and her grandfather's refusal to oppose them.
Starting with Kristin's childhood and continuing through her romance with Erlend Nikulausson, a dangerously charming and impetuous man, she defies her parents and stubbornly pursues her own happiness.
An adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's nineteenth-century drama in which Hedda Gabler, a woman who has married beneath herself, becomes trapped in a prison of her own making when she tries to advance her husband's career by driving his competitor to suicide.
When Ola, a Norwegian boy, dons his skis in search of adventure, he meets new friends, joins a wedding party, encounters a howling dragon, and learns folklore from fishermen as they pull codfish from the icy waters.
