ln this eIegantly unsettIing murder mystery, SteIlan Skarsgard pIays an enigmatic Swedish detective with a checkered past who arrives in a smaII town in northern Norway to investigate the death of a teenage girI. As he digs deeper into the facts surrounding the heinous killing, his own demons and the tyrannicaI midnight sun begin to take a toll. The success of Erik SkjoIdbaerg's chilIing procedural anticipated the international hunger for Scandinavian noirs and seriaI- kiIIer fictions, and the film features one of Skarsgard's greatest performances.