Iskalde Grøss album #1

In "Pioneren," a disgraced professor, once celebrated for his work in space flight, retreats to a remote barn to rebuild his dream after being forbidden from further experiments. When a local farmer's curiosity threatens his secret, the situation spirals into violence, leading to arrest and a terrifying confrontation with authorities. As the line between genius and madness blurs, Lathem clings to the belief that his work will be recognized—though the truth of his fate is far from what he imagines.

In "Plettfri," William Acton, haunted by his crime, becomes consumed by the need to erase every trace of his presence at Arthur Huxley’s home. As the night wears on, his meticulous cleaning spirals into an obsessive ritual, blurring the line between guilt and madness. By morning, he is found still scrubbing—lost to a mind unraveling under the weight of his own actions.

In "Ta et lik og la det vandre," a man's financial ruin leads to a tragic end, leaving a woman named Anita to wander the city, drawn back to the place where she once found him. She strikes up a quiet conversation with an elderly woman over lunch, only to be offered a strange, intimate arrangement as her live-in companion. When she arrives at the woman’s home, she must face the simmering resentment of Harriet’s son Eric, a man haunted by past heartbreak and a hunger for retribution.

In the quiet stillness of a Kansas prairie, old seaman Ezra—abruptly retired from the sea—arrives at the home of his longtime friend Milly. Stripped of the ocean he once knew, he begins to remake her house into a ship, trapping her in a delusion of the sea. As the prairie stretches endlessly around them, Milly becomes the sole crew of a vessel that never sails, caught in a haunting, slow unraveling of reality.

In "Fra den ene til den andre," a meticulously planned murder takes a chilling turn when a suspicious detective begins to unravel a seemingly flawless crime. After Harry kills his wife and hides her body in a trunk, he attempts to escape by swapping it with an identical one on a train—only to discover too late that the other trunk holds a corpse of its own.

In "Fortærende," a simple-minded farmer's amateur radio call to aliens sets off a chain of events that draws the military into a bizarre standoff over a mysterious arrival. As the armed forces seize his equipment and home, the farmer's alien contacts reveal they’ve already landed—hidden in the brine of a local hotdog vendor’s sauerkraut, their tiny ships destroyed by giant white objects no one can explain. When a sergeant bites into a hotdog and feels something crunch, he begins to suspect the truth is far stranger than any invasion.

In "Et mykt regn skal falle," a silent house carries on its routines long after its inhabitants are gone, its systems still humming with purpose in a world reduced to dust and silence. The story unfolds through the mechanical rituals of a home that remembers nothing of the people it once served, a quiet meditation on what endures when humanity does not.