A new warm-hearted story from the author behind the Vilma books.

Funeral director Edvard Jensen has a mother with dementia on the second floor, and a dead literary critic in the cold room. The only thing he’s missing is a life.

In the depopulated village of Nordalen, the nursing home and the funeral home are the only businesses doing well.

For Edvard Jensen, things are going so-so.
For Kurt Steinfeld, things aren’t going at all. There he lies, on the first floor of the funeral home, after visiting the village — and the woman he loved — for the first time in over thirty years.

But death can sometimes make things happen. Because a funeral home isn’t just a place where stories end.