Vidar is not himself. He has been suspended from his teaching position after a violent incident at the school. And in a forgotten box, he accidentally finds the phone number to the family's old summer cottage. When he dials the number, his father, who has been dead for a long time, answers.

Vidar has called June 17, 1986, a day in his childhood. Suddenly, a trapdoor to the past opens up. Vidar makes call after call to June 17 and begins to map out every move his family makes.

At the same time, Vidar becomes the subject of a criminal investigation and crosses boundary after boundary. While the day in his childhood slowly unfolds, the noose tightens in the present.

Alex Schulman has written a breathtaking novel about time travel and about what shapes a person.