The photographer shoots, determining the fate of the people. Not there and then but elsewhere and later…the photo of the couple is the beginning of it all.

While Nanna is tending her garden she sees that it’s all going out of control; branches reach up unto the veranda, blocking her view. Finn has similar feelings towards the hotels’ accounts, something is not right. In the grand family everything has its proper role and place. But when the quiet foreigner appears the harmony shifts and discord bubbles up to the otherwise smooth surface…

Cantata by Kristin Marja Baldursdottir is a magnificent and polyphonic family story, with interwoven threads, spinning twisting, turning, and coming undone. Accompanied by nature; the unruly life in Nanna’s garden, the trees, insects, birds, and the river with leaping salmon – where events are about to unfold.