Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.
Trace is about Baldr, a viking explorer carrying knowledge from distant lands and lost empires. Gorm and his men fear the unknown, and seek to slay the wisdom-bearers. Now begins the fight for survival, and hope for a better future.