Reykjavik, 1918. The eruptions of the Katla volcano darken the sky
night and day. Yet despite the natural disaster, the shortage of
coal and the Great War still raging in the outside world, life in
the small capital goes on as always. Sixteen-year-old Mani Steinn
lives for the movies. Awake, he lives on the fringes of society.
Asleep, he dreams in pictures, the threads of his own life weaving
through the tapestry of the films he loves. When the Spanish flu
epidemic comes ashore, killing hundreds of townspeople and forcing
thousands to their sick beds, the shadows that linger at the edges
of existence grow darker and Mani is forced to re-evaluate both the
society around him and his role in it. Evoking the moment when
Iceland's saga culture met the new narrative form of the cinema and
when the isolated island became swept up in global events, this is
the story of a misfit transformed by his experiences in a world
where life and death, reality and imagination, secrets and
revelations jostle for dominance.
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