Annika and her 17-year-old daughter Saga have moved to a small town in Lapland for Annika's new job in the local hospital, and to start afresh. At first, life in the permanent night of the polar winter is just as boring as Saga predicted it would be. However things soon start to change when Saga makes a new friend at her school, the black haired goth known as Vega, who acts as if she has known Saga for years. But the town is harbouring a dark secret. Something is hunting in the middle of the night.

With a sense of impending dread it soon becomes clear that as the world around you disappears and you don't know who you can trust, the last thing you want to hear is that there is more than a month until dawn. A script sent to the director, Anders Banke, initially inspired Sweden's first vampire movie. He knew he could put together a film set in a land where there is darkness around the clock and secondly that 'white snow is a very good background for red blood'. Lastly there were some scenes that were so funny they made him laugh out loud. Coupled with his strong interest in history, myth and legend cultivated by Bram Stoker and Hammer Horror Films he created