When a young woman goes missing near the sleepy Icelandic village of V k, police inspector John Ward wants to cancel the Northern Lights Festival after his sole witness describes the kidnapper as a "Shadow". However, police commissioner K ri Ingason overrules him, fearing the loss of tourist revenue will cripple the village. Scientist Rakel Atlad ttir and her peculiar assistant R nar offer to help Ward investigate the disappearance, plunging the trio into a fight for survival, with the fate of humanity in jeopardy against a malevolent cosmic horror...
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