The incident was so unexpected that she felt as if she had been grabbed by the throat. She fell in complete silence. She fell slowly as heaven and earth alternated at regular intervals. At the end she was wondering where the moon was.

Sonja Pætursdóttir was found dead below Stöðlafjall mountain. Even though the police registers her death as an accident, the Journalist Hannis Martinsson does not agree. When he a little later finds Sonja's boyfriend dead, he is sure that there is something wrong.
Then there is the schooner "Eva" from Paraguay, which lays in Vágsbotn.