The Mercies

Synopsis

After the men in an arctic norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this 1600s parable inspired by real events. Finnmark, norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old maren magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny arctic town of vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later, a stranger arrives on their shore.