Elín Hansdóttir

17 year old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Íris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control.

Núa burns through her last drops of gasoline to get to a sanctuary at the end of the road where powerhouses, musicians and mystics have gathered for a letting go ritual.

For 28 years, Icelandic babies and their new parents have bonded in a unique way at a shabby pool not far from the ocean and the mountains. Six days a week, Snorri, a pioneer and visionary swimming coach, creates a unique world where babies stand on his palm and swim underwater by opening lines of nonverbal communication and earning their — and their parents’ — trust.