…His life changed forever when he was three years old and he and his parents went on vacation to France. When his mother and father mysteriously died on the same day. When he himself vanished without a trace and was found only three days later by chance, remembering absolutely nothing. Ever since, Edvard Hiriartfjel has tried in vain to solve the mystery of that long-ago tragedy. It seems that all traces are hopelessly tangled and lost in time. But the path to the answer began very close by—in a grove of twisted Karelian birches near the house…