A man employed in a genetic research institute is looking through records which might be able to explain the origin of his little girl’s illness. A parallel storyline develops as detective Erlendur begins investigating the murder of an old man who led a bizarre existence in his murky basement flat.

A philosophical detective story from the land of fire and ice, Baltasar Kormákur’s haunting procedural took the top prize at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Probing the darkest recesses of Reykjavik’s wounded soul, Jar City is a thrilling journey through the pungent fog of the national psyche.