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- Grand dad, I was thinking the other day...

Maria? Do you miss her?

- Yes.

I certainly do.

I miss her, every single day!

My wish... my final wish before I die,

would be some sort of sign of life,

if she at all is either alive or dead...

Where ever in the world she might be.

- Yeah. So you never heard from her?

- No.

Not even a single word.

It is as if she

vanished into thin air.

She disappeared.

Went to live abroad,

because she

did not agree with

your great grandmother and -father.

That's all.

- I just find it very strange, that she'd leave, and

never come back. - Yes.

We were so close.

I was the eldest

so I always looked after her.

It was as if she was

my sister and my daughter as well.

- Yeah, so you were very close?

- Yes.

- The man of a thousand faces travels to Iceland

to commit his next kidnapping.

- The boat of the man of a thousand faces

arrives in The Faroe Islands at Saksun beach.

The ship arrives at Saksun beach

in the Faroe Islands. A man of a thousand faces

throws an anchor into the sea near some large rocks.

The man of a thousand faces puts a girl in a boat.

He and another man, with a long beard, get on, lower the boat

into the sea, and go to sail ashore.

- Interview with Jákup Jacobsen.

One, two, three, four.

We are sitting in a comfy living room

in Saksun.

With me I have probably the most famous

Faroese in Europe,

Jákup Jacobsen, the author.

He is no stranger to writing autographs

around in Europe,

but right now he is in Saksun.

- Jákup...

Your latest book is called

Kidnappings For The Love of Women.

Four million copies sold already.

Are you satisfied?

- Yes. It's hard not to be.

I didn't anticipate to sell this many books.

If I keep selling this many,

in the future, I need only write four more,

then I can retire.

- That would be nice.

I'm told that

the stories are based upon real events

with women - girls - who have disappeared.

Is it true?

- Yes.

When I get an idea

or a subject which I want to write about,

I always research real cases.

All the situations in this book

are real kidnappings,

but as they are portrayed

they are fictional.

- Like a mix of fiction and facts.

One of the events in the book

is a girl from the Faroe Islands

who disappeared forty years ago, approximately

Are you familiar with this case?

- We went to the same school.

The entire Faroes were

shocked by the event.

But nothing was discovered

as to what happened to her.

As I said...

The stories in the book

are fictional.

- I have been to the

National Archives

and have discovered,

that you were in fact a part

this case.

Did you know Maria Dahl?

Can you comment on that?

- All of Maria's friends

were interviewed.

All the pupils at the school

were interrogated.

The case was never resolved,

because Maria was never found.

Nobody was accused.

Oh, Voicemail. Perfect!

- Hi. Yeah, so this isn't working.

I mean you're with me for one night and then I don't see you for days and weeks.

Don't bother coming back, cause... we're over!

- How is the thesis coming along?

Have you made up your mind

what you are going to write?

- I think so. Erm, I'm not entirely sure.

Erm. My grandfather's sister she disappeared forty years ago

and, er.... I would like to find out, what happened to her.

It's going to be a difficult investigation because

she just disappeared forty years ago and was never heard from again.

And my grandfather never told much about what happened to her.

- So how are you and Carlos doing?

- Not very... not very well.

- I'm sorry to hear that

he is the reason you are going back to London.

You know... you

have talked so much about wanting to

completing the journalism degree here, and

remaining closer to your grandfather.

- Well, Carlos, he's... He's one of the causes,

but I don't know... Now everything has changed.

First I'll have to help my grandfather find his sister.

And there is something he isn't telling us about it - about the case.

- You know, it's actually a bit strange...

Because I have been reading this case

from Russia about a girl

who disappeared ten years ago.

And for a long time I've

been wanting to travel to Russia to

you know, investigate further.

- Yeah! Coincidences, because

I'm reading this book by Jákup Jacobsen

where he talks about missing girls, and there is on case about a missing girl from Russia.

I'll just stop right there, because

I need to go home to do some investigating

on my grandfather's sister. So we'll just keep in touch.

- Yeah.

- It has been two days since the disappearance of Maria Dah... Mar...

Oh my God! This is Maria? Er....

The last day that Maria was seen

was on June 19th.

June 19th...

In 1988,

at one party in the center of The Faroe Islands.

The girl never came home. According to Police reports nothing is known

of Maria's whereabouts. She was last seen in the party same night

where they were celebrating a party with her companions.

The party was in the center of Tórshavn,

the capitol of The Faroe Islands.

The police is investigating all classmates

of Maria. It is investigating many people,

off course... but so far nothing has been found.

No sufficient evidence against anyone.

No sufficient evidence...

Let's see. Where was the other one?

I think it was...

The last one...

Oh! One year after Maria Dahl's disappearance

nothing is known of her.

Two years have passed and due to lack of evidence

the Police have decided to close the case

and put it on file. Whoa.

Great investigating, yeah.

Help!

- Help me!

- Aaahh! Help me!

Help me! Somebody help me!

Aaaah! Help me!

Help!

- Hi, Mum! It's me, erm...

I've just found some information on the internet and

They talk about Maria's case,

that it was a possible kidnapping.

- Yeah? Cause Grandpa never told me this.

Did you know about it?

- No. That's very strange, yeah.

Erm...

Yeah.

- I was thinking - Could you ask Auntie if

if I could stay here for a few more weeks,

cause I need the thesis.

- Yeah, yeah. I need to make the thesis and

I was thinking about writing about Maria's case.

- Yeah. I think grandpa really needs it.

- Yeah, he never got any closure on... - Yeah.

I know.

Yeah, yeah I understand. Yeah, talk later.

All right.

- From Heaven we're approaching a sign

that welcomes to the city of Moscow, Russia.

On the shore off the port we see a man in a suit,

a long overcoat,

and a black hat.

- In his hands he has a Russian newspaper

in which you can see the photo

of a girl in her twenties

and a headline that says:

'Twenty year old girl Has been missing for four days

after disappearing on October 5th 1990.

1990?

That's a strange coincidence.

- I'll never get tired of looking at

this picture.

- No. It really is beautiful.

And the sun is out.

- Peaceful

and fantastic.

- Hello dear! - Hi, Grandpa!

Come in!

I've been doing some investigating on Maria's case

and the Police were involved.

Why didn't you tell me?

- It was all a bit difficult

and I was severely affected by it all.

So the first years, I just

I avoided talking about Maria at all.

- Yeah, but we have to do the thesis, and

they want us to do... to investigate

cases that have happened in the last 40 years.

I was thinking of doing Maria's case,

but if I do, you have to tell me the truth.

- Yes, dear. I'll tell you

Everything!

It's about time that

someone starts looking for her!

Yes.

And I don't have much time

left alive.

- Why do you say that?

- It has to do with my heart.

I don't think it will

last much longer.

- Grandpa! You have to be strong.

- I know. - There's so much more to do.

We have to explore and...

- I'm going to record the conversation. You don't mind, do you?

- No, not at all.

It's all fine, dear.

- Here you are.

- Now let's see.

- Aaah.

Maria was a happy girl!

Always with a big smile!

Jákup Jacobsen, the author,

was in the same class

as Maria,

and he was a suspect.

All the other boys in the class

were suspects too.

And some sailors, who

were in town the night

when Maria disappeared,

were also under suspicion.

On of the stories claimed that

dad had sent her to

a convent.

Yet another story was that

Maria herself had fled from the Faroes

and never returned.

- So Jákup Jacobsen - he was the main suspect?

- Yes.

- He recently presented his latest book

which talks about kidnappings of women in different countries,

and this religious sect.

There is one case that I find quite similar to Maria's

The book is called 'Kidnappings for the Love of Women'.

I'm reading it at the moment.

- Uh-hum.

- That night

when Maria disappeared,

we'd had an argument.

I can never forget it.

I was absolutely convinced

that Maria

was flirting with Jákup Jacobsen.

- Hi.

- Hi! May I have a word with you?

- Sure.

- I want to talk about Jákup Jacobsen.

- Why?

- Please be careful!

You know that his family

are completely messed up.

His father has

been in prison several times.

They say that he beats

his mom.

Father will never

accept that you are friends with him.

- Pætur. I know what I'm doing

I'm no little girl.

- Yes, I know.

I just want you to be well,

and for nothing to happen to you.

- Thanks, but I don't need your help.

- I have seen you together

and I don't like it.

- Don't interfere with my life.

I'm not involved with that boy

if that is what you worry about.

Don't mention him to me.

- I just want you to

stay away from him!

I know you are seeing each other.

- Stay out of this!

I know you have talked

about us to mum and dad.

I'm fed up!

Leave me alone!

- Later we had supper.

Maria never uttered a

single word.

I never saw her

again after that.

She went to a party

with some of her

friends, and

I went out with my friends.

The police searched

and looked everywhere,

on both sea and land.

Personally I've always thought

they didn't investigate enough.

- Yeah. There were a few theories

and some suspects, right?

- Oh, a lot of

theories, but no evidence!

They suspected Jákup

for having something to do with it.

Because when they investigated

his house,

on his wall they discovered

in his bedroom

a lot of photos of Maria!

Maria and Jákup, they

saw each other secretly.

I saw them one night,

but I didn't know what to do about it.

A few days before she disappeared

I had a chat with Jákup.

- Hi Pætur. - Hi.

- Hello, Jákup.

Can I have a word with you?

- Err... yes, of course.

- I know that there's is something

between you and my sister.

I want you to stop seeing each other.

- There is nothing going on between us.

We're only classmates.

- I told him

that if I ever saw him

with Maria again,

he'd have to deal with me!

He said, that

he wasn't involved with Maria!

- He seems a bit strange.

- Well Jákup was a strange boy.

Sure, he's a famous author today,

but back then...

He hardly ever spoke.

He could be standing in the school yard

- I still remember it vividly,

he would be standing in the school yard just

observing and watching,

never talking.

- In Tórshavn?

- Oh!

- So cool!

- You know - really poofy...

- Maybe they'll fold mine up a bit.

- It's so nice like that.

- You probably can do that.

- Guys!

That boy over there...

He's always alone - watching us.

- He's so strange.

- Maybe he prefers being alone.

Don't judge him on his appearance.

- Well I think he's strange!

- His entire family is strange.

- Jákup admitted

to being in love.

He was totally crazy about Maria.

That's is why he had so many photos

of her.

But they never found any

solid evidence against him.

- Why? Wasn't he at the party?

- His mother claimed that he

hadn't been out that night.

He had been sleeping all night.

But Jákup said

for himself, that he

had psychological problems.

He didn't know what it was,

but... he became

obsessed with things and

couldn't let them go.

- So he admitted to being mentally challenged?

- He did.

But I didn't know what to do about it.

So I told my mum and dad.

- We should not wallow

in grief, when we have the best Father.

From earth to His bright castle,

He will gently lead us.

Praise God!

- Praise God!

- Praise God! - Praise God!

- Amen. Go with God.

- I have something to tell you both.

I think...

Maria sneaks out with Jákup Jacobsen

in the evenings.

I think they have something going on.

- Out of the question!

It cannot be!

Jákup and his family are devils!

They have the Devil in their home!

- They did not like it.

Our father was very religious.

Fanatical!

And he wanted us to be like him.

He was the leader of a

small church in Tórshavn,

and he did not accept,

that Maria and Jákup were seeing each other.

He felt that the best thing for Maria

would be to join a monastery,

leaving the Faroe Islands.

- That's a bit extreme. - Yes.

- Jákup's family

were the exact opposite of

everything our father believed

and stood for.

- Why? How was his family?

- His father was an alcoholic

and spent more time locked up,

than on the loose.

That day,

when our father said that,

he would send Maria to a monastery,

he was furious!

- No one can know that

Maria and Jákup are seeing each other!

It would tarnish our name!

We have to protect Maria.

Jakup's family are the Antichrist!

- Father. We don't know for certain

that there is anything going on.

- There is nothing to discuss!

We have to protect Maria and our family!

No one in our family

is to be involved with criminals.

It is best that we send Maria

to a monastery in Denmark!

- Maria was weak

and I was a bit

uneasy about her.

Our father was so

strict and religiously fanatic,

which is dangerous!

Maria was so kind.

She always brought friends home

after school.

Always smiling.

Yes, a smile

whatever happened.

- Yeah. But can you tell me something that they didn't cover in the investigation?

- There is something

my mother told me,

which we never told

the police.

because we expected that they

wouldn't investigate it

further.

One day my father

received a letter about a monastery

in Denmark.

Maria found the letter.

That day

things changed between them.

Mom always claimed that Maria

ran away and went to live

in a different country.

I was probably for the better,

that mum thought that.

so she wouldn't get upset.

She never agreed to

sending Maria to the monastery.

But father had a lot of power

over mum and us.

And that is the reason

that hardly anything

of this was told

to the police back then.

One of the Police's theories

was that Maria had had an accident

during the party,

and that she died from it.

Her friends didn't know

what to do,

so they concealed the body.

A theory...

No evidence!

Some of her friends told

the police, that they had

seen Maria leaving the toilet,

and two foreigners

were interrogated, but

there was no evidence against them.

- Can you tell me a little bit more about your relationship as siblings?

- Oh yes. Maria

and myself were almost

like twins.

I remember how we would sit

in the sofa

I'd sit in the sofa and she

would lay her head in my lap

I'd give her a massage,

and we would talk about - everything.

For hours and hours.

- Agnes. I know the son of

the officer, who was in charge

of the case back then.

I'll put you in touch with him.

Maybe you can talk to his father.

The son is a police officer too.

I'll give him a phone-call,

and then you two can meet.

- Yeah. That would be really helpful.

And also... If you remember anything else...

- Yes, well I think I've

told you everything.

...everything I remember, but in case

I remember anything else,

naturally I'll tell you right away.

...You see...

...you know it really matters a great deal to me.

I've told you about my heart - it's

not working as it is supposed to

and my final wish, before I...

before I leave this earth,

is to hear something,

just anything,

of or from Maria...

Whether she's alive or dead.

- I'll do everything I can to find her.

- I know you will, my dear!

- I promise.

- Gutti. -Agnes.

Thank you for coming. Let's go inside.

- I really don't know much about the case.

It's very old.

My father really hasn't told me much about it.

But I know that my father keeps

copies of all his cases at home.

I can check it tomorrow.

- Yeah, that would be perfect. It's very important to me.

- Yes it was a special case.

It affected my father's psyche a great deal.

He was very concentrated about Jákup Jacobsen.

- Yeah. Do you think I could talk to your father?

- No.

He was very upset, that he never found Maria.

He really hasn't mentioned the case since.

- Well, thanks anyways.

- Well... what do you think happened?

- Well, I think you don't go missing for forty years without

having some kind of paper trail.

And if you don't have a paper trail, then...

you're most likely not alive.

So.

- So you think she has been killed?

- What does your husband say

about you working on this?

- Why do you ask?

- I don't know...

Working with this kind of thing can be kind of dangerous

- Now I feel like I'm in an interrogation.

Well - there was someone,

not anymore.

It's a long story.

- Well I have plenty of time.

Feel like telling me the story?

We can go for a walk.

- Hello! - Hi.

- Look what I have for you.

- Are the files on here?

- Yes.

None knows I have taken them.

so... I'd rather stay here

while you read them.

- Yeah, sure.

- There is plenty of information there, so...

...it's going to take a while.

Do you have a cup of coffee?

- Yeah, sure. It's over there. Help yourself.

- Mugs?

- Second drawer.

- So now we all have denim jackets.

- Very nice.

- From Tórshavn?

- Oh.

- Oh well. See you later.

- Yes, bye!

- Here you are. - Thanks.

- How is it going?

- It's going OK. I mean it's a strange case.

There's not much information.

It's an old case, so...

She might as well have disappeared into thin air.

- You know...

I've talked to some guys at the station,

who are in their sixties.

One told me, that my father and the others

were most suspicious of

you know... Jákup.

- Yeah, his name keeps popping up everywhere.

I'll need to question him. If I can get a hold of him though.

- Good luck!

He isolates himself in Saksun.

He really only emerges

when he travels abroad

to present his books,

Then he flies back home and...

well, isolates himself again.

But OK...

It is where he writes his best books.

- Yeah, but where does he go? I mean...

...is it the same place every time, or...

Do you know?

- They say he spends much time in Denmark.

But we know very little about him.

...what he does in private.

He spends much time alone.

- But thanks for coming over though.

This was really good information.

- Tell you what...

Let me know if there is something else.

I'll just hang around here.

OK?

- Yeah. Thanks.

- Alleged culprits: Two foreigners

were at the party the night Maria disappeared.

Investigated by Tórshavn Police

...dismissed for lack of evidence...

Lack of evidence.

- The man in the black hat and black overcoat

walks through the kitchen of a house.

Passes through a dining room.

Opens the door and goes out into the garden.

The man in the black hat and black overcoat

walks through the garden and goes to a shed.

The man in the long overcoat and hat

walks with long steps

walks a few meters, and climbs up the stairs.

Opens the door. He gets in

and the door closes.

In a very dark shed

you see a man in a long overcoat and hat,

and a girl sitting on a wooden chair.

It is very dark. Only a small spotlight hanging on his right side

illuminates the shed

Another man with a long beard is there.

- The girl is unconscious in the middle of the mountain

In the distance we see the man with a hat,

the man with the long beard and the hooded man approaching her.

- Hello! - Hi.

- So?

How is the work coming along?

- Well I'm actually interviewing your father later today.

Maybe he has some information that isn't in the files.

- Well - you never know.

He was very certain

that it was Jákup Jacobsen who

somehow was involved

Maria's disappearance.

- Yeah, in Jákup's latest book...

It's based on disappearances of girls,

and he cites the case of Maria

and of other missing girls.

The book tells the story of a man in a black coat and a hat.

It's called 'Kidnappings for the Love of Women'.

And this man is called 'The man with a thousand faces'.

He travels in a boat,

and he kidnaps girls from all over the world.

He tells the story of this man's obsession with girls,

to protect them from abusive men.

He also talks about Saksun, where he lives.

And a religious sect

that performs rituals on these kidnapped girls.

- So you also think

that Jákup somehow is involved

in Maria's disappearance?

- Well I think he's hiding something.

Cause these cases are based on real cases.

- It was a complex case.

Some people said that

we didn't do enough,

but I tried everything to find

Maria.

I always

suspected that Jákup Jacobsen

had something to do with the disappearance.

He behaved strangely during the interrogation.

We asked him what kind of relationship he had

with Maria.

He said the just knew each other from school.

When we asked him why he had so many photographs

of Maria, he said that he was in love with her.

- No I didn't understand.

No? Me neither.

- How do you like Jákup?

He keeps looking at me.

Maybe he likes me.

- I think he's strange,

and don't want anything to do with him.

Maybe you are right.

- When we asked him

about his whereabouts on the night

when Maria disappeared

he said he had been at home

with his mother, and then he

went to bed.

We asked a lot of

questions - but...

nothing! We never

got any information out of him.

There was something strange

in his eyes.

As if he knew

something.

We marked him

as our chief suspect,

and I can remember,

that we had him tailed for

for several days.

But he didn't do anything suspicious.

He left home for school,

then from school and back home.

Quite a few of Maria's

friends left for Denmark

to study.

They didn't return for many years.

The case was heavily

discussed in the media,

and the blame was put

on them.

But our first interview was

with her best friend

Annika Thomsen.

Annika also mentioned to me, that

Maria had told her,

that her father was planning

to send her to a monastery

in Denmark.

But her mother refused it!

Maria - that thing you told me,

the other day?

- What?

- That thing you told me,

the other day?

What was that all about?

- No don't think about it!

It's nothing.

- I was really scared!

- It's really nothing - I'm serious.

- But you said you were going

to a monastery... what... ?

Which monastery?

- I need the loo, come with me.

- I called every single

monastery in Denmark,

just to check

if her father had sent her off,

without her mother's consent.

But not a single trace

of Maria.

Then I asked

the Danish police for help,

but Maria couldn't be found.

Two days later,

a man entered the police station,

and said, that he had seen Maria

He had been working on his boat,

preparing for sailing out.

- After, he saw nothing.

He followed the path,

but there was nothing to see.

- At one point he thought,

that he saw something in a doorway,

but then he thought,

that a shadow appeared elsewhere.

He went back onboard his boat,

This made me think,

that something might have happened to Maria.

So I ordered

to search for her on

both the sea and on land.

Where the sailor had heard

something, we also looked

for clues.

Our investigation showed

that Marie indeed had been there.

I remembered

Jákup and the foreigners.

Two days later,

I went to ask

some more about Jákup.

But he wasn't at home.

His mother was there

and she wouldn't let me in.

The first time I

was in Jákup's home,

I noticed a large map

in his bedroom.

And he had lots of books too,

which I found interesting.

That's why I wanted to

get to know Jákup better.

- Do you know why Jákup has a

naval map in his bedroom?

- Sometimes I have told Jákup,

when his father was in jail,

that he was a sailor,

sailing between Denmark and the Faroes.

Once, when he was at home,

he hung the map in his bedroom,

and showed Jákup where he had sailed.

They then sat together

and pinned on the map

where he had been.

Jákup used to say,

that he was going to build a ship

and sail the oceans with his family.

He very easily

obsessed with all sorts of things.

- Jákup's family

was very chaotic.

The rumour was, that his father

hit his mother, when he was at home.

I asked her if Jákup

ever spend any time

elsewhere in the house.

- Well he does spend

a lot of time in the garage.

He's inventing,

fixes engines,

does woodwork...

I honestly don't know

what it's for.

He doesn't tell me

about everything.

- Does Jákup spend time

in any other house

you know, occasionally?

- Well we have a house in Saksun,

which his grandfather had.

But we're hardly ever there,

and haven't been there for years.

- Can I have the address?

- Yes, sure.

- Do you have a boat?

- Well, yes...

Jákup's dad has tied the boat

down by the docks,

but we haven't checked it

for ages.

- I had a look at

the boat.

It was completely

fallen into disrepair.

The engine wouldn't

even turn.

But it made me think

that the car in the garage

could have been used

for driving Maria somewhere.

We went to Saksun

to investigate the house

but there was nothing there either.

- We continued with

our investigation,

but found nothing of use.

We interviewed some

neighbours, asking

if anyone had been there

- in the house - lately,

but they said: No.

- In Jákup's latest book he talks about...

He describes this house and talks about kidnapping of women,

and hiding them in a shed near this house.

And he also talks about a man arriving on the island

on a large wooden boat.

- We went through the entire house,

but we didn't find anything.

Perhaps he hid Maria

in the shed.

I told you that I always

suspected him.

There was something strange about him.

But now I'm too old

to go back into the case.

We went on board a fishing vessel

to interview the crew,

to find out if they had been

on shore on the night Maria disappeared.

- Hey sexy! Do you wanna have a good time with us?

- The following day the court had issued us

a permit to interview the crew.

We went on board with many men.

We searched every nook and cranny

of the ship.

We interviewed the ones

who had been to the party.

They had indeed seen Maria,

when they were leaving.

But they continued down the road

and Maria went the other way.

Then they went to a bar

and that's the last they can remember.

We also checked the bar

where the barman could verify

that they had been there.

The crew was made up

of more men, but

only these men had been on shore that night.

The case was eventually closed

and since then

no one has heard from Maria.

- Hi Mal. How are you doing?

- Oh?

- There is something Jákup Jacobsen is hiding.

- Hi, John. So - you have to do me a favour -

I know you're doing your thesis in Denmark and

I need to find out if Jákup Jacobsen, the writer,

if he has a house in his name in Denmark.

- Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Actually I'm having coffee now with a guy.

Yes, I've had really bad luck with men lately.

Yeah.

- Do you remember in Jákup's book

where he talks about kidnappings of women...

- Yes. - ... in different countries.

I just talked to a friend of mine. She's investigating a case in Russia.

and she says that the case is real.

- OK? You know I actually heard a press meeting

with Jákup in the radio the other day.

He was asked about real cases

in his book.

And he said, that he based

his stories on reality, but

he writes around them.

- I just find him very suspicious.

I'll have to interview him.

Maybe I can get something out of him, that Niclas didn't.

- So...

Do you want me to come along

if you're going to interview Jákup?

There is something fishy here.

It's probably for the better,

if I'm with you in case something happens.

- Yeah, that's right. It would be really nice.

- It seems like something was between Jákup and Maria,

and I'd like to get to the bottom of it.

- What are you going to do

when the investigation has finished?

Are you staying?

Or are you going back to London?

- Well, I'll have to finish the investigation first.

Then I'll decide.

But I sort of have to go back.

- Yes, of course.

- Would you like to come to dinner tonight?

- Will you be cooking?

- Maybe...

My grandfather isn't home...

- I'd like that.

- Yes?

- It's about time.

It's going to be all right.

- Yes.

- First we have to return to Denmark.

Then we can return to the Faroes,

when the time is just right.

- Yes.

- Cheers! - Cheers!

- You know... Just in case you didn't know it...

It has been great fun spending

this time with you. - Yeah?

Well - likewise.

- So how about it?

Wanna go upstairs?

- I'm not really ready for that.

When I start to like someone I'm afraid that they're going to leave me.

And it's because I recently went through a relationship where

my partner just wanted sex and then forgot about me.

When I start to like someone I think that they're going to leave me.

...Long story. My mother got pregnant very young

and my father he left us when I was born. So...

- Oh, sweetheart!

You know what? No stressing.

We have lots of time.

- That sounds really good.

- Cheers! - Cheers!

- It was rather difficult

to live with the constant remarks

we heard.

But I always had two theories.

I was a bit late for the party

- OK?

- When I approached the party,

I met two men.

Sailors... on foot.

I just walked even faster

to get away from them.

I've always

suspected the foreigners.

Probably because of what was said,

that they met Maria

on the street.

But the police

wasn't able to pin the situation

on them.

- Yeah, that's right. They didn't find any evidence.

- Then I started thinking

that Jákup had something

to do with this matter.

- Why would you think that?

- Because he was such a

strange boy,

and he always followed Maria.

And he also used to follow us

going home from school.

Maria and I lived

in the same neighbourhood

- some six houses apart.

Before going in, I stood in the doorway

watching, and I saw

that Jákup walked behind Maria

and was taking photographs.

I thought that he was not

in his right mind, but

I also thought,

How could a boy in our

age manage to get Maria

to disappear without a trace?

- So what else can you tell me about Jákup?

- There was something about Jákup.

He was not like the other boys.

Sometimes he was scary.

He was always alone.

He'd stand and stare.

But I don't know...

Today he is a great author.

All authors are strange.

- Yeah, but what do you think changed for him -

I mean: As you say - he's an accomplished writer today.

- Some people say,

that since Maria's disappearance,

he's been living two lives.

One as an author

travelling and presenting

his books,

and a different life in Saksun,

where he has a house.

But I've heard,

that he drinks rather heavily.

- OK?

- Everything happened so quickly.

Our final year of Junior College.

Parties.

Happy to have graduated.

We were a group of girls,

who were very close.

...but...

after Maria disappeared

everything changed

from one day to the next.

She was the happy one.

But no one really knew much about her.

Most of us left to study in Denmark

never returning to the Faroes.

- Yes. But did you notice anything different or

wrong with Maria before her disappearance?

- She never showed

if there was something going on.

She was always smiling.

But there was something in her eyes.

- What do you mean?

- Something was troubling her.

And one day

she told me something

and made me promise never

to tell anyone!

She told me one day we

were coming home from school.

Okay...

Erm...

Promise me you'll never tell

anyone what I'm about to tell you.

- Yes, I promise.

- If something happens to me

I want you to know,

that I'll be all right.

- What are you talking about!

Please don't scare me!

- I think that my father

is planning to send me

to a monastery in Denmark.

- That can't be true!

Why would he do that?

- I... I can't tell you

any more just now,

but promise me

that you won't be upset

Seriously! Don't worry!

I will be all alright!

- I promise, but...

It'll be all alright.

- I have to go now, OK?

See you later at the party.

- Sure.

Oh, I need to take this... erm...

Just one second. I'll be right back.

Hi. Yeah?

OK?

Yeah, tell me.

Are you sure?

- I have to go now, dear.

- OK, yeah?

Yeah, and do you know a name?

- This is really good. This is the first break I've had.

so this is good stuff. Thank you.

Yeah, thanks for everything.

- Hello, my dearest! - Oh, got to go.

Hi! Oh, granddad, are you OK?

Sit down, sit down. - I was just startled!

- Yes, come on. Sit down.

- I hope my heart will last just a bit longer.

- Do you want me to call someone for you? - No, no.

- Do you want a glass of water or something?

- There's an idea.

- Here you go.

- Thank you!

- What's new, my dear?

- One of my colleagues has discovered that in the south of Denmark

Jákup has a house. - Oh?

- And in the house there's a woman. She's in her eighties.

And - not to get your hopes up. Her name is Sofie Larsen.

It could be Maria. I'm not sure.

The book also talks about kidnappings of women and..

I think that they might be real, but I'm not sure of this either.

- It sounds dangerous.

You'll have to be careful.

Really careful.

You see, I've always thought

that she's out there

...somewhere...

...alive, well and happy.

Agnes, I've never

told you this before, but

some years after Maria

I started receiving

letters from many different countries.

But they had no returning address, so

I just threw them away.

It really was a blow losing Maria.

But at the same time I

was sort of comforted, because

her best friend

called Annika,

told me,

that Maria had told her,

that if she ever heard,

that something happened to her,

she should not be afraid,

because she could be sure,

that Marie would be all right,

and was safe.

This part I've never told

the police.

Because if I did, they'd never

continued with their investigation.

- I promise you. I'll find her.

Now you just promise me that you'll take care of yourself.

- Yes, of course. Thank you for everything, my dear.

- I really need to go to Saksun now to talk to Jákup,

- Yes? - I'll just leave you here. Is that OK?

- I don't know if...

I don't know if I'm ready to leave.

- It's our only chance.

If we go

nobody will be able to

tear us apart.

- You are so quiet.

- Mmm no. The report confirms that the woman

living in Denmark has the same age as Maria, but

it doesn't confirm that it is Maria.

- I just find it really weird.

And he seems like he's hiding something, you know?

Where does he go? He goes abroad all the time.

And it's not like he has book releases all the time.

- True, there is that.

- That's the church.

- It's just the same!

It's just the same as in the book. - True.

- Here you'd certainly be inspired to write!

- Yeah, that's true.

- That's the man in the book! It's exactly the same as in the book.

The man in the black overcoat.

There's Jákup's house. The black one there at the top.

- That's where he supposedly writes all his books.

- Look!

- What is it? - The hat!

The hat and the overcoat on the coat rack!

- Yes!

That's the same clothes,

which the kidnapper in Jákup's book is wearing

- It's exactly like in the book!

Everything is exactly as in the book!

So strange.

- What are you doing here?!

- We came to see Jákup.

- Jákup?

He's in Denmark on holiday!

He'll be back later today.

I'm his housekeeper, while he's away.

If you want to meet Jákup,

you'll have to return later.

- Thank you.

We will return later.

- That's the man with the long beard. He's also in the book.

This is so strange. We'll have to come and investigate more later.

Help! Daddy help!

- We have to go. We have to check out Jákup's shed before he comes.

Let's go.

- Don't touch it!

You don't want your fingerprints on there.

This is strange.

It's all just

like in Jákup's book.

- Tell you what...

I think we have to go into the house.

Have a look at what's inside.

- Hey!

Hey open up! Open up!

- Who is there?

- We're here to see Jákup.

- Jákup is waiting inside the house.

You can sit in the sofa.

- Hello.

Marius says you

want to talk to me?

- Yes. Hello. My name is Agnes Petersen.

I'm doing my thesis in journalism.

I'm researching Maria Dahl's disappearance.

And I would like to ask you some questions.

Or if you could just tell me what you know about her disappearance.

- There's not a great deal to tell you

about the case... There's...

It happened such a long time ago.

- I think you are wasting

your time with me.

I can't tell you more than

others already have told you.

- Mmm yeah. You're sure?

You're sure you don't know anything about her disappearance?

Hum? Cause I think you do.

I think you were involved in her disappearance.

I think you have something to do with her disappearance.

- I have already...

...told you

that I don't know any more than you!

I think you need to leave.

I have important things to do

- It's just that I've been researching for a long time and

I promised my grandfather, that I'd find her.

I don't have much time cause... cause he's sick.

I need to find her before he dies.

- Who is your grandfather?

- Pætur Dahl.

- Jákup...

it's time to tell the truth.

- So you are Pætur's granddaughter?

You remind me of me

when I was young.

- This is Maria.

- Maria?

- Yes!

I am Maria.

The girl who disappeared

forty years ago.

- Jákup and I fell in love.

Living here wasn't

so easy back then.

Religion... wealthy families who

ruled the country.

It all began

when we started receiving letters

from a Danish monastery.

One letter read, that

I had been admitted

to a monastery boarding school.

I resealed the letters

and put them back in the mailbox.

Then I heard my parents talking.

- We have received a letter

from the monastery.

Maria has been admitted.

It's time to tell her

that she'll be in boarding school

for a couple of years.

- I'm not convinced

that it's such a good idea.

I don't want her going to

another country! I want her

here in the Faroes!

If what Pætur says

is true, that she and Jákup

are seeing each other,

then this is what's best for her.

We can't allow her to be

seeing the son of a criminal!

What will

people say?

What about the church?

It is the best for her and her future.

And the decision in final.

After the summer holidays

Maria will go to a monastery in Denmark!

- It was dreadful to hear it!

I didn't want to go to a monastery.

Father was very preoccupied

with others' opinions

about the family.

Most people thought

that Jákup was strange.

He still is.

But the real reason was

that his parents were so poor.

And his father was an alcoholic.

When I heard my parents

I went straight to Jákup

and told him what my parents

had said.

We met

behind Jákup's house.

On the hill by the lake.

We met in secret

in order to keep it a secret.

- Daddy wants to send me off to a monastery in Denmark.

- We don't have much time left.

- We'll think of something.

We have time. We can...

- But... yes, we'll think of something...

I mean...

Maybe get married?

- We have a house in Saksun.

We could hide there

for some time.

- Even if Jákup was strange,

he was quite clever.

He planned the escape.

But everything fell apart

when people started talking

about kidnapping.

Even the police viewed it as a

a disappearance.

That night when we

left... when I left the party...

I left so that nobody

saw me leave.

We had agreed to

meet on the pier,

but when I was half way there

Jákup had hid in a corner

and surprised me.

I screamed with fear,

But then I heard someone

approaching, and we hid in the dark.

Then the man left again.

He never saw us.

- It's just me, it's just me.

- We got into the boat

and sailed to Saksun.

We went up to this house.

- Maria, are you all right?

- Yes.

- We fell asleep

and blissfully awoke

the next morning.

...until we heard the news on the radio.

- The police is searching for 18 years old Maria Dahl...

- Come here, Maria!

- Who was last seen at a party with her co-workers

in Tórshavn. If anyone has seen Maria

or knows about her whereabouts,

they are to please contact the Police.

Maria is 18 years old, she has brown hair and eyes

She was last seen in town last night.

- That's when we changed our plans.

I refused to leave for the monastery

and this would make everything much worse.

My father would never agree.

He was very religious.

And very defiant.

We decided that

Jákup was to go back to Tórshavn,

to avoid suspicion.

And I was to hide here

until things quieted down.

Jákup showed me the barn

where they kept some old things.

There were lots of hiding places.

I stayed at the house

and hid in the barn

if I heard the slightest sound.

The month I stayed there...

Everything went well to begin with,

but when the police began investigating

I hid in the barn for days.

- Jákup used to come visit

in the evening.

When the police finished their investigations

Jákup decided that

the time had come

to move to Denmark.

- Hi.

Thank you.

- My love.

I have some good news.

I've received a letter

from Magnus.

He says we can stay at

his house in Denmark

while he can stay here.

- That's wonderful!

OK.

Now we can live our

lives in peace.

- Jákup's cousin

came by boat from Denmark

and moved in here.

And we took the boat

back to Denmark.

It turned out to be

fortunate for us,

because people would think

that Jákup lived here,

and had become an alcoholic.

Then they would stop

suspecting him.

After a few years

Marius died.

His son moved in after that.

We didn't dare tell

anyone, because we thought

that the police wouldn't believe us.

Bit by bit we got used

to living in Denmark.

I mostly stayed hidden.

Changed my name

and nobody recognized me

as Maria the lost girl.

After some years the police

stopped searching and

then we could start

living our lives.

- Please do me a favour!

I simply must see my brother!

Give him a hug!

But... I'm not ready yet.

A few more days...

Can you tell him?

- Yeah. Yes I can.

- Hello my darling!

- Grandpa!

There's someone who wants to sell you.

- Oh?

- Maria, is that you?

I can't believe it!

This is the moment

I've dreamt about

for so long!

My dearest!

I always knew,

that you were out there

somewhere...

alive and happy.

- I'm so sorry for what happened.

I'm so sorry!

I was so young

and afraid.

But I didn't want to be locked

away in a monastery for

years and years.

I wanted to live a

normal life.

And thank God, that

I have been able to live my life

together with Jákup.

We are -

and have been - happy.

- Hello Pætur.

- Hello Jákup.

- I am sorry for

what you have been through.

I never meant to

cause any sorrow.

- I loved

and still love your sister.

I thought that what I did

what was best

for our lives.

- I see.

- It was most difficult

for me back then.

But I comforted myself

that Maria was somewhere

doing well, being happy.

But... Maria...

Why did you wait

so long until you returned?

- I was so afraid.

I feared that if I returned,

they would accuse Jákup

of kidnapping me.

Nor did I want to come back to Tórshavn.

I had started a new life

under a new name.

The past was no more.

- But why now then?

- I have cancer!

- What?

- I don't have much longer to live.

I want to live my last days

here with you.

and maybe regain some

of what we lost.

- Here you are! - Hi.

- Cheers. - Cheers.

- Now I'm ready.

- Finally Maria has been found!

- You're still here!