A new heart-warming 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 thriving businesses.

For Edvard Jensen, is just about getting by. For Kurt Steinfeld, on the other hand, isn’t getting by at all. There he lies, on the first floor of the funeral home, having visited the village — and the woman he loved — for the first time in over thirty years.

But death can sometimes set things in motion. After all, a funeral home isn’t just a place where stories end.