The past never leaves you alone.

Psychologist Emma appears to be living the life she carefully built for herself: a stable marriage to her colleague Lukas, a four-year-old daughter, and a respected career at a psychology clinic in suburban Reykjavík. But when a photograph in a newspaper abruptly pulls her back to a murder case that has remained unsolved for more than five years, Emma’s meticulously controlled world begins to crack.

The article concerns the brutal murder of Steingrímur, a prominent businessman and lawyer who was tortured and killed in his apartment in November 2017. The case went cold, and for Emma, it became something far worse: a secret she buried so deeply she believed it could never surface again.