The film explores the life of teenage outsider Nói (played by Tómas Lemarquis) in a remote fishing village in western Iceland.

The Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan called the movie "singular enough to have swept the Eddas, the Icelandic Academy Awards" and noted that it was a selection in "dozens of film festivals.

"[1] Skye Sherwin of the BBC called it "a coming-of-age tale, bound between grinding humdrum and exquisite surrealism.

"[2] Nói Kristmundsson is a 17-year-old living in a small unnamed remote fishing village in western Iceland with his grandmother Lína (Anna Friðriksdóttir).

His father Kiddi (Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson), an alcoholic taxi driver, also lives in town, but Nói appears to have a distant relationship with him.

There are signs that Nói is highly intelligent, but he is totally uninterested in school and seems to have an adversarial relationship with the faculty, particularly his math teacher.

More often than not he cuts class to go to the local gas station, where he frequently breaks into the slot machine and rigs it for an assured jackpot.

Things begin to change for Nói when he encounters the new gas station attendant, an attractive young woman who is new to the village.

He asks about the new girl to Óskar (Hjalti Rögnvaldsson) the bookstore owner, who informs him that she is his daughter Íris (Elín Hansdóttir), up from the south to escape the city, and to stay away from her.

He receives a View-Master as an 18th birthday present from his grandmother, which comes with slide disc of tropical island images.

After reading the tea leaves, Gylfi becomes visibly upset, informing Nói that his future is filled with death.

He comes back inside the bank thoroughly humiliated and withdraws all of the money in his account, using it to buy a nice suit.

At a rescue shelter, he watches the news report and discovers that nearly everyone he knows has been killed in the avalanche, including Íris.