From the country that brought you 101 Reykjavic (MIFF 2001) comes an equally humorous tragi-comedy. High school offers no challenge to the gifted Noi. He spends his days stealing beer to numb the boredom of life in the snowbound Icelandic village he has grown up in. Noi is hairless, pale, awkward and under constant suspicion by the local constable. He silently suffers the domestic burden of a dotty grandmother and terminally alcoholic father.

The arrival of a lovely new petrol station attendant Iris, gives direction and purpose to the mischievous Noi. Dreams of a Polynesian escape wrth Iris take him off on a number of small but surreal adventures.The humour of the film winds down from side-splitting to the plain hilarious before a final, almost apocalyptic, climax that sideswipes the audience. However rather than come as a clumsy shift in tone, the finale somehow fits perfectly with the atmosphere created throughout the film.