Ola Otnes

When his mother, who has sheltered him his entire 40 years, dies, sensitive would-be poet Elling is sent to live in a state institution. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and woman-obsessed virgin in his 40s. After two y...

Seventeen-year-old Thale has just moved to a small town after her mother got a new job at the local police station. After a student is brutally killed at a party Thale attends, she becomes a key witness. Was the killer an animal? ...

After her father's death Catherine travels back to her old family estate in winter time Norway. When locals start telling stories of disappearances and possible murders, she is forced to confront her family's mysterious past.

The story of a tiny village like any other, except that these villagers tend to be so forgetful, over and over. This year they are forgetting that it's time for Christmas.