On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot. In Iceland, a herd of horses is spooked by an unknown, loudly-breathing entity that makes its way to a barn. María and Ingvar take the hybrid infant in lamb biryani their own and grow to love her as their own child, naming her Ada after Maria’s deceased daughter.

Ada’s biological mother becomes a nuisance, attempting to contact Ada constantly and loitering outside the couple’s home. Shortly after an incident where Ada goes missing and is later found next to the mother, María shoots Ada’s mother and buries her body in a shallow, unmarked grave. Pétur, who makes sexual advances towards María, is very disturbed by Ada and maintains the belief that “it’s an animal, not a child”. Ingvar claims the whole situation has given them happiness. Increasingly angered and disturbed by María and Ingvar’s attachment to Ada, Pétur takes her on an early morning walk while everyone is asleep with the intention of shooting her. After having a tearful change of heart, however, he is later seen soundly sleeping with Ada and soon becomes an uncle to her.

One evening, while María, Pétur, and Ingvar are having a drunken party, Ada witnesses the unknown entity from before near the barn. The entity then proceeds to kill the family’s dog before taking the family’s gun. After the party, a drunk Ingvar goes to bed. Pétur makes sexual advances towards María once again. María pretends to be seduced by Pétur in order to lock him in a closet.

María drives him to the bus stop the next morning and sends him away, insisting she is committed to a new start with her family. After waking up to find María and Pétur missing, Ingvar takes Ada to fix the broken tractor. María returns home and finds that Ingvar and Ada are missing. She searches for the two and discovers Ingvar before he dies, and despairs at the loss of her husband and new child. María searches the wilderness in vain, before closing her tear-filled eyes.

You can help by adding to it. In February 2019, Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason had joined the cast of the film, with Valdimar Jóhannsson directing from a screenplay he wrote alongside Sjón. In June 2020, the film was sold across Europe in the New Europe Film Sales agency. The film had its world premiere on 13 July 2021 as part of the official selection at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.