Three sisters travel through a snowstorm to visit their father—an aging gynecologist who bears a more than passing resemblance to the author's father, the legendary Swedish filmmaker, Ingmar Bergman—at his Baltic island home, where twenty-five summers before they were caught up in a tragedy that would irrevocably mark their lives. Linn Ullmann's fourth novel explores the relationship between a father and his daughters, between the past and the present, and between a community and the land. This is a gracefully written, and often deeply moving, exploration of the fragility of life.