Siri Brodal a chef and restaurant owner is married to Jon Dreyer a famous novelist plagued by writer's block. Siri and Jon have two daughters and together they spend their summers on the coast of Norway in a mansion belonging to Jenny Brodal Siri's stylish and unforgiving mother.
Siri and Jon's marriage is loving but difficult and troubled by painful secrets. They have a strained relationship with their elder daughter Alma who struggles to find her place in the family constellation. When Milla is hired as a nanny to allow Siri to work her long hours at the restaurant and Jon to supposedly meet the deadline on his book life in the idyllic summer community takes a dire turn. One rainy July night Milla disappears without a trace. After her remains are discovered and a suspect is identified everyone who had any connection with her feels implicated in her tragedy and haunted by what they could have done to prevent it.
The Cold Song is a story about telling stories and about how life is continually invented and reinvented.
