When Gunnur wakes up one morning, she realises to her horror that her home has been burgled while she was sleeping. All her state-ofthe-art modern gadgets have vanished – and all
her credit cards. They’ve wiped her clean and her husband is abroad. Full of revulsion for this violation of her home, she decides to flee to the couple’s summer house in the east, even though
it’s the heart of winter. But she doesn’t get to go there alone. While she’s talking to the police, she’s saddled with taking care of a young girl, before she even has a chance to protest. This odd pair, a psychiatrist in her fifties and a girl close to early teens, are lumbered together in a remote house without any gadgets for the whole weekend. Secluded in the frost and snow, they have no choice but to tap into two resources they’ve lost the habit of using: their memories and the imagination.

Even though The Big Dipper spans only three days, Baldursdottir sheds light on the nature and development of mankind throughout the ages in this original yarn about the whole art of story telling.