Two rivalling brothers are dead in a forest. Near them lies the unconscious body of a young woman who had known the men all her life. “Is she a murderer or a victim?” The pregnant policewoman Ragnhild's investigations reveal a passionate love affair: Janne had left her husband and child to live in a wood cabin with William, the love of her youth. But their dream of returning to their childhood paradise is foiled by William's older brother Ruud. He attempts to jam a wedge between them, as he did years before. Back then, Janne had yielded to the pressure ... Embedded in a crime story and illustrated with shimmering images of summer, Sara Johnson recounts how childhood dreams are shattered by human nature. Nevertheless the primeval conflicts of this timeless drama are firmly anchored in the here and now, as the apparent idyll of remote Nordic woods is inexorably threatened by the problems of present-day globalisation.