Plot Summary:An interwoven story of four characters in small a Icelandic farming community of Budardal Valley who are locked in a constant struggle for survival where the pressures of free market economy and the modern age are phasing out old traditional values.
Locals and neighbouring farmers in a small town in Iceland try to scrape a living out of a system that has left them behind. The residents of Budardalur stick together in their fight for survival, continually threatened by bankruptcy and market middlemen pushing for lower prices of their produce.