Fed up with her unfaithful boyfriend and big-city life, Julie, a newly-qualified young teacher from Copenhagen, takes a job as a teacher on an idyllic island in southern Norway. Julie finds being accepted difficult in the close-knit island community; slowly but surely she discovers that the idyllic island hides many dark secrets. Just when she's about to give up, she meets the island's sympathetic priest Roald. Handsome and charming, he becomes her gate into the community.