The Swan

The world is contemporary rural Iceland. For Sòl (9) things have been better. Her father is gone, and when her mother has a nervous breakdown, Sól is sent away to live with distant relatives deep in the middle of nowhere. The only person Sól connects to is the mysterious farmhand Jón (33). By day he works like a horse and by night he writes ferociously in his journals. “Words are loyal, unlike people,” he tells Sól, making her feel that finally, here is someone worth being loyal to. But Sól has competition. The farmers’ daughter Ásta (23) has a claim on Jón too, and an angry one. Sól is convinced that Jón is her soulmate, but his behaviour towards her is becoming increasingly transgressive. And when Ásta’s secret comes out and Jón becomes the focus of a potential crime, Sól finds herself in the middle of a drama she can hardly grasp. (Estonian Film Institute)