'Summer 1897: Three Swedish men set off on a perilous journey. Led by Salomon August Andrée, they hope to reach
the North Pole in a hot air balloon. The expedition fails miserably. Despite rescue missions throughout the remaining
years of the century, the party - Andrée, Knut Frænkel and Nils Strindberg - are lost to the world until 1930, when
Norwegian sealers inadvertently discover the men's remains in the expedition's final camp on a small tundra called
Kvitøya, in the Arctic Ocean. 1930: Smug, young Swedish journalist, Knut Stubbendorff, is sent to report from the
site. Among the remains he finds the private journal of Nils Strindberg, filled with letters written to his fiancée, a
young governess named Anna Charlier. Moved by the sincerity and emotion of these love messages he sets off on a
journey of his own to find the woman and pass on Nils' letters. Two men, two eras, one woman -
can Stubbendorff unravel this mysterious love story that the past has kept secret?' (Publisher's blub)
