What happened to LÔara? Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old LÔara decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of ReykjavÔik. In early August, the girl disappears without a trace. Time passes, and the mystery becomes Iceland's most infamous unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there? Thirty years later, as the city of ReykjavÔik celebrates its 200th anniversary, journalist Valur Robertsson begins his own investigation into LÔara's case. But as he draws closer to discovering the secret, and with the eyes of ReykjavÔik upon him, it soon becomes clear that LÔara's disappearance is a mystery that someone will stop at nothing to keep unsolved...