Overview

A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but the harsh conditions on board makes him jump ship, and he ends up in the little town of Misery Harbour. There he meets the girl of his dreams. But his passion shifts to jealousy when one of the men from the ship mysteriously appears in town, and sets out to make Espen's life a misery.

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Cast

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Stuart Graham

Anneke von der Lippe

Bjørn Floberg

Hywel Bennett

Margot Finley

Michael Wade

Graham Greene

Knut Husebø

Espen Haavardsholm