After losing her mother, the shy and reticent eleven year old Unn goes to live with her aunt.
Siss, one of Unn’s classmates who is lively and popular, strikes up a friendship with her. But the very next day after their first awkward meeting, Unn disappears. No one knows what has become of her but every one suspects Siss knows more than she lets on.

Either this book was lost in translation or the metaphors were too profound for me to understand. There was no character development. We know only the names of the two girls, the other characters are all referred to as mother, father, teacher, the boy with the boot, the girl who became the leader, which was annoying.