"The year is 1717. Maija, her husband, and her daughters, Frederika and Dorotea, arrive in the Swedish Lapland from their native Finland, hoping to forget the traumas of their past and put down new roots in this harsh but beautiful land. Above them looms Blackåsen, a mountain whose foreboding presence overpowers the valley and whose dark history haunts the lives of those who dwell in its shadow. While herding the family's goats on the mountain Frederika...