Saga Jónsdóttir

While collecting material for his thesis, a master’s student interviews two elderly sisters who have been living together in the same old house their entire lives. But as the young man begins to speak with the seemingly normal pair, he soon discovers that there’s much more to their story than meets the eye.

A couple are going through a divorce, but once one of their children gets injured they start taking care of it, and maybe each other also.

Devil's Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik's post-war slum of Camp Thule, where the abandoned US military barracks have been turned into makeshift homes. Struggling wives and their hard-working husbands try to make ends meet. The younger generation dreams of dollars, Rock'n'Roll and the American way of life. To celebrate or to drown their misery - they're never short of a good reason to booze. Devil's Island vividly depicts the everyday life of a wacky family, their neighbours and friends and shows how some of their dreams come true and others don't.