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Across in Kurravaara

quiet librarian Martha married Alan

After all these years

But the man refuses to say what he's searching for and only leaves when Iain closes for the night

As the search for Daniel widens

while all the time grappling with his own domestic and existential demons

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from the disappearance of a family album to the theft of gold teeth from bodies at the crematorium