Alone, Dominique arrives at a deserted beach in a remote part of Iceland. She wants to document the Ormen that was shipwrecked in the 1970s before the coastguard arrives at the end of the month to haul the wreck into the sea. She sets up camp inside the ship, but soon disturbing dreams make her awake suddenly, singing drifts through the ship, and in the distance along the beach she is sure there is a woman scantily clad in a dress even though it is below zero. These are images from 1901 when the Ormen, then a whaling ship, left Dundee. Later her visions are from when the Ormen was used as an Arctic research vessel in the 1970s.

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