Anders, Cecilia, and their daughter Maja head across the winter ice to a lighthouse — where Maja disappears without a trace. Two years later Anders returns to the island, now alone; and the ghosts of the past, whose voices he tried to drown in alcohol, begin to sound at full force. Ghosts ride an old moped and break the night's silence with old songs by The Smiths; ghosts set fire to a house standing apart; ghosts hint at a terrible pact that long ago bound the island fishermen and the sea itself; ghosts hint to Anders that Maja may still be alive…