When an empty luxury yacht literally bangs into the harbor dock of Reykjavik, Iceland, no one knows what happened to the crew or the young family aboard. There is one daughter left, a toddler who had been staying with her grandparents. On child's behalf, lawyer Thora Gudmundsdottir must prove to the life insurance company that the parents definitively died at sea. But how? And how did it happen? An eerie and brilliantly constructed mystery.