In the summer of 1947, a young priest, Petter, his wife and baby daughter, arrive by mail boat at a tiny island.
With each season, the family\'s love of the island grows an.
In this evocative tale, Ulla-Lena Lundberg draws us into the minutiae of an austere yet purposeful life where the demands of self-sufficiency - cows to milk and sheep to graze - are tempered by the kindness of neighbours.
They are to take over its drafty homestead from where Petter is to minister to the scattered community.
In the summer of 1947, a young priest, Petter, his wife and baby daughter, arrive by mail boat at a tiny island