In 1953, Freya, an extremely beautiful Icelandic woman in her mid-20s, comes back from America. She married an American serviceman during the war and moved with him to the US, but now she is back, a widow. She settles down with her distant relatives in a small fishing town near Reykjavik. It becomes clear very soon that Freya has ambitions to get on with her life. But how does a working-class girl of those times go about doing just that? The other women of the house are in no doubt about the only option available: to find a man and to get married again. Freya is something of a mystery to the other women and even more to the men in her life. She is seen through the eyes of eleven-year old Agga, who is always in the right place, following everybody’s moves, especially Freya’s. Freya is the name of the Goddess of Love in Old Norse mythology, and in many of Freya’s lines and in her attitude, especially towards men, she is reminiscent of the heroines of the Icelandic sagas.