One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her lost and dark childhood. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on.
Erica's parents are killed in a traffic accident. She moves to Fjällbacka and discovers she has a brother.
The death of a matriarch brings forgotten secrets out into the open and causes a prolonged battle for the family inheritance.
