The series focuses on Aníta Elínardóttir, a thirty-year-old policewoman who takes a job in her childhood home, the only position she can get after being forced to resign in Reykjavík.

She has not been to the village in fourteen years, and in the meantime, it has become a tourist trap, surrounded by black sand.

Worst of all, she has to move in with her mother, Elín, with whom she has a broken relationship due to a difficult past.

When Aníta arrives in town, the body of a young woman is found on the sandy beach.

As the investigation dwindles, Aníta ends up at the centre of a fiery love triangle that complicates things for her.