In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a 5-day journey through the bloody West to find a distant town's Faith Healer. The woman believes her daughter is possessed. The doctor believes she simply carries The Sickness. Either way the fact remains that every living thing the girl touches...。The story follows police officers Kata and Arnar, in charge of investigating gruesome murders from Iceland’s first serial killer. The unlikely pair slowly starts connecting the case to a mysterious and abandoned boys’ home named “Valhalla”.。