It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson hasn’t seen his mother, Faye, in decades—not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s reappeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she’s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel’s help. To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye’s losses but also his own lost love, and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother, and himself.


如今已是 2011 年，薩繆爾･安德森已有十年沒見過母親霏雅，安德森年幼時母親便拋家而去。現在霏雅再次出現，但她卻犯下了令人不解的罪行，震驚了晚間媒體，加劇國內原本的政治對立局面。媒體將雅霏描繪成一名過去相當不堪的激進嬉皮，但薩繆爾所知道的母親是個平凡的女子，嫁給了中學時期的心上人。雖然不知道母親的真面目，但能確定的兩件事實是：她正面臨嚴重的指控，且亟需薩繆爾的幫助。為了拯救母親，薩繆爾必須踏上旅程，設法揭開這個他自認熟悉的女子長久以來所隱藏的秘密，這些秘密跨越幾個世代，更可追溯到霏雅長大的挪威小鎮，也是神祕尼克斯精靈的家。旅程中，薩繆爾將挖掘出母親過去的傷痛，也將挖掘出自己失去的愛，更將重新認識自己與他自認了解的母親。