In December 1925, young Vera Grund, who works in an advertising
agency, takes the train from Berlin to Stockholm. She is embarking
on a journey into her own past, bringing along some clothes, a city
map, and a couple of addresses. During the three days she will spend
in the capital of Sweden, wrapped in snow and darkness, she will
be looking for the father she has never known. At the same time,
professor Schaumberg is leafing through his files in an old private
palace in the center of town. A former “soul biologist,”
he is a fervent scientist, whose determined ambition, for more than
fifty years, has been to locate the proper place of the soul in
the human brain. Once he was a celebrated member of the Swedish
Academy and the founder of the mythical “Club of Brains.”
Vera’s and the professor’s fates are more closely connected
than either of them know as yet. As the train arrives in Stockholm,
the last act of the “biological drama” can begin.
Stockholm noir is partly
based on real events. It is a biological thriller, a dark tale about
the wonders of the brain and the soul’s errant nature. But
it is also a lyrical portrait of a city that marks its inhabitants
in ways both puzzling and marvelous.
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