House Troubles

Place of Crime: In Michigan. Investigated details: Unsolved deaths of 19 different cases that are being linked to a serial killer or killers. The victims are randomly found along the I-75 corridor in the state of Michigan.

Two characters spend days in over-questioning themselves and arguing about the first and last matters of ephemeral human existence.

We meet some of the poorer inhabitants of Vika in Oslo in the hard 30'ies, and get a glimpse of their lives. the people you are likely to meet when it's dark, the shoelace seller who came on doors and those living their nights in shelters.

The protagonist is Axel, aged about 40, a doctor who no longer practices his craft. He is living temporarily with his sister and her children. He doesn't do much, just exists a little between the living and their things. One day, he meets a young, pregnant woman. A relationship develops, a kind of love, and they live together, like driftwood temporarily clinging on to each other.