When two workers at a controversial open-cast mining project in Greenland are murdered, the chief of police in Aarhus sees an opportunity to get rid of her headstrong investigator John Kaunak. Ostensibly as the new head of security, he flies to the island and soon realizes that he is not dealing with an ordinary murderer. The coveted neodymium, which the whole world is chasing, is being mined in the open-cast mine. Nobody wants to support John and stand in the way of the big players. Until he meets Aka Høegh, a young local woman who shows him the mystical side of Greenland.
An explosive and highly topical political thriller set against the spectacular backdrop of the Greenland ice.