In 1986, realizing that he doesn't really know who his father was, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns changes his past and undermines the entire notion of who he is. In present-day Russia, Alevtina Kotov was never interested in learning about her biological father - when she finally starts looking into him, she learns that he died many years ago and left two sons, Joar and Syvert. Years later, when Syvert and Alevtina meet in Moscow, two very different approaches to life's great mystery emerge.
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