On March 11, 1984, the Icelandic fishing boat Erki capsized seven kilometres off the coast of the Westman island Heimaey. Only one person on board survived the accident, as if by a miracle. After hours swimming in the ice-cold waters, 22-year-old Guðlaugur Friðþórsson, known as Gulli, reached land. That feat of survival made him a national hero and a scientific sensation … Director Baltasar Kormákur conceived of this survival story in stark images as a symbol of Iceland’s financial crisis, and it was seen in the country as a call to overcome that crisis, “we speak of our nation as a ship, and when the economy took a dive, that was our nation’s shipwreck”. Kormákur dedicated the haunting drama starring the outstanding actor Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (of the TV series “Trapped”) to Iceland’s fisherfolk.