It is on an ordinary Wednesday in November that a 42-year-old man is found murdered in an old house in Norðvík.

This is world-class news for the six women who regularly meet to knit and jabber. Anita is the host, and she is the wife of the policeman who is set to solve the case.

An acquaintance from their youth and school days has been murdered. The friends are shocked by the crime. But they have no clue that they have played a role in the tragedy and are a part of the horrors that now transpire.

In the Faroes, life must go on, even when death rolls his dices.