Ella Testa Kusk

To be the first girl accepted into Santa school, twelve-year-old Lucia must find a cure for a mystery illness caused by the devilish Krampus.

Way up north in Greenland lives 12-year-old Lucia with her mother and her father, who is best known as Father Christmas. Lucia is the first girl ever in Santa class at the international Christmas School. On the day that the present machine is supposed to be started for this year’s present production, Lucia’s best friend, the reindeer herder Oscar, is accused of stealing King Winter’s magical crystal that fuels the present machine. Claudia, Lucia’s mother who has long been wary of the crude Oscar, tries to prevent Lucia from ruining her future career by defending the seemingly guilty boy. But Lucia is determined to fight injustice and escapes with Oscar to prove his innocence by finding the real thief.

When Christina returns as a teacher to the school where she was once a student herself, she carries with her a past she thought was long over. In the classroom she is confronted with the problematic Mathilde, 16, who has lived in a shelter since her mother's death. Their meeting sets off a power struggle that quickly grows beyond the classroom walls. Mathilde struggles to hold on to a world that is falling apart around her, while Christina struggles not to become who she once was. Harassment, secrets and lies pull them towards a darkness neither of them can control.