

Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.
Acting
Egill Ólafsson's weathered face does more acting than most scripts.
Cinematography
London-to-Tokyo visual poetry that makes grief look gorgeous.
Writing
Olafur Johann Ólafsson's novel adapted with surgical precision.

Director
Baltasar Kormákur
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Baltasar Kormákur cast his own son Pálmi as young Kristófer — nepotism that actually works.
The pandemic framing wasn't in the original novel; Kormákur added it after shooting was delayed by COVID, making the film accidentally more urgent.