Sigurþór Albert Heimisson

A boy growing up in the country in the sixties is fascinated by card games and ancient poetry.

A woman arrives to Iceland and decides to travel into the country with her daughter to take one last look into her past.

Maria is somewhat of a rebel and problem child. Her mother died and her father remarried some awful lady, and Maria isn't happy at all. She takes a drug overdose and winds up in a home for other girls with problems, but the two women who run the place turn out to be not quite the ladies they seemed. Maria knows she can't stay there very long, and starts planning her escape.